Petri Manninen

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse.

Новые приключения веселого и отважного олененка Нико, мечтающего, как и его легендарный отец, стать летающим оленем в упряжке Санта-Клауса. Все начинается накануне Рождества. Вместе со своими друзьями, белкой Джулиусом, лаской Вилмой и сводным братишкой Джонни Нико с нетерпением ждет Санту. Но тот снова попадает в невероятную историю. Неужели дети останутся без подарков?

In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.

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.

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.

Для того, чтобы правильно транспортировать и уж тем более использовать продукты корпорации «Редкие товары на экспорт», необходимо владеть определенными навыками, иначе последствия могут оказаться слишком плачевными…

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.

Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not especially original. The script has more characters than the screenwriter can handle, leaving the audience frequently confused about who is doing what and why. The two best scenes are one about a wacky wedding and another about a guy who answers a cell phone call while he is busy enjoying the pleasures of a sex parlor.

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.

Жаркое лето 1941 года. В Советской Карелии финские части ведут ожесточенные бои с советскими войсками. Получив приказ освободить захваченные земли, взвод лейтенанта Ээро отправляется в тяжелый и опасный поход, исход которого невозможно предсказать. Пытаясь не попасть в засаду в дремучих лесах, теряя братьев по оружию, солдаты продвигаются вглубь вражеского тыла, но вскоре отважный лейтенант получает известие о том, что его невеста, медсестра Карина, погибла в бою с советскими партизанами. Теперь тайная вылазка отчаянных бойцов станет для юного офицера миссией отмщения за любимую.