Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

Фильм о событиях Русско-финской войны (1941-44 гг.), начиная с отвоевания Карелии и заканчивая полным разгромом Финляндии.

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing. Niklas and Antti decide to throw Tuomas the bachelor party of all times – but things don’t always turn out as planned – and the dudes end up in the funeral service of their old classmate.

Две страны привыкли к плотному политическому сотрудничеству, и когда секретные агенты одной из стран узнали, что на влиятельного чиновника из России готовится покушение, то они сообщили об этом своим российским коллегам. По сведениям разведки, на чиновника нападут во время его приезда в Хельсинки на деловую конференцию, и теперь жизнь депутата зависит только от профессионализма тайных агентов принимающей страны. Но враг крайне изощренный и опасный, поэтому сотрудникам секретной службы придется приложить максимум усилий, чтобы спасти жизнь русского чиновника, проведя тайную от всего мира операцию.

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.

Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man. Baby Girl's parents, Eila and Rampe, do their best to become friends with Pirkka and his elegant mother. Through coincidence and error Eila occupies her summerhouse neighbors' empty luxury villa. When Pirkka's mother drops by, Eila lies that she and Rampe own the fancy house. The showing off and lying escalate when Eila's mother and sister show up. The real owners of the house, an upper-class couple, Thomas and Monica, are driven away to Eila and Rampe's modest cottage.

Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.

Эльза Ахо – владелица шляпного салона и, к тому же, известная ясновидящая. К её услугам то и дело прибегает отдел по розыску без вести пропавших. Но этот дар нельзя использовать себе во благо, поэтому Эльза не знает, что в серой социалистической Праге, за «железным занавесом», прозябает тот, кого она так пылко любила в юности, и из-за кого так и не вышла замуж. Она считает его мёртвым... 8-ой фестиваль молодёжи и студентов в Хельсинки вновь сталкивает две разных системы, два противоположных лагеря. Этот яркий, красочный и безрассудный водоворот затягивает даже тех, кому по штату положено стоять на страже идеалов социализма...

Пике, бывшая шлюха наркоманка, выходит из тюрьмы. Теперь у нее есть маленькая дочь, и она не может позволить себе совершать ошибки. Но вскоре в ее жизнь возвращается бывший любовник, жестокий уголовник Лалли, принося за собой прошлое, о котором Пике хочет забыть. Страсть между ними разгорается с новой силой. Но Пике твердо решила не возвращаться к прежней жизни. Жесткий и местами откровенный фильм, собрал много наград на разных фестивалях.

Действие фильма происходит в начале XIX века на равнинах Остроботнии — провинции, расположенной на западе Финляндии. Здесь всем заправляют бандиты, из всех видов оружия предпочитающие ножи. Испокон веков в тех краях старший сын наследовал все. И когда Эско, главарь бандитов, узнает, что отец хочет оставить родовое поместье его младшему брату, начинается настоящая война.

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.

Этот фильм повествует о тяжёлых и упорных боях в районе Тали — Ихантала, о героических финских солдатах, защищавших одно из главных направлений от ударов доблестной Красной Армии, в период с 24 по 30 июня 1944 года.

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

У тридцатилетней Джонны есть все: престижная работа, любящий муж, прекрасные дети. Но она живет двойной жизнью. Встретив молодого красавца Алекса, Джонна становится его любовницей. И очередной игрушкой в его руках…

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.

Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.

This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

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Клавдий безропотно превращается в Клауса, а Принц Датский — в чувствительного недоросля «с сердцем теплым, как холодильник», пожирающего колбасу ломтями и ногой врубающего магнитофон. Борьба за власть осталась неизменной пружиной человеческих отношений с шекспировских времен, зато в качестве предмета нежной страсти деньги вытеснили все остальное.

Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions. The dialogue is entirely improvised by the actors.

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).

Десятка полтора-два суровых парней, каждый из которых носит имя Фрэнк, решают отправиться из Каллио в Эйра, из бедного квартала Хельсинки в южный богатый квартал. Не важно, что подлинная длина маршрута едва ли превышает пару километров. Неискушенные городом первобытные мужики из Великой Степи ступают на самую опасную тропу своей жизни.

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.

TV play about the legend of Lalli.

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.