Toivo Suonpää

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

По одноимённой повести Майю Лассила. Полная самых неожиданных и нелепых происшествий, эта кинокомедия является едкой сатирой на финскую деревенскую буржуазию, на её нравы, на тупой и бессодержательный образ жизни. … — опять в доме ни спички… — с этими словами Анна-Лиза, жена Анти Ихалайнена, разбудила своего ленивого мужа и послала его за спичками. По дороге Анти встретил своего закадычного друга Юсси Ватанена… О неожиданных приключениях, к которым привела эта встреча, с тонким юмором рассказывает фильм.

Alfred Haaravirta's worries begin, when his longtime housekeeper dies. So Alfred sends a letter to his old friend Matilda and asks her to be his new housekeeper. But Matilda misunderstands the letter to be a proposal of marriage.

“Tukkijoella” (Log River – 1928). Films of this genre gave the Finnish cinema and the viewing public one of its most popular characters – the lumberjack (tukkijatka, tukkipoika, tukkilainen) who at his most heroic hour becomes the log-roller or the shooter of rapids (koskenlaskija). The significance of this character in Finnish film is comparable to that of the Cowboy on American cinema. He is the pioneer, the wanderer, the adventurer. He negotiates the frontier, he is an embodiment of the conflict between wilderness and civilization.

A couple move to an isolated house where – according to local legend – an ancient curse is rumoured to assail its inhabitants. Based on the novel by Väino Kataja (1914).