Pertti Sveholm

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.

In the middle of the summer holidays, the body of a drowned man with ligature marks on his wrists is recovered from Tammerkoski river. The investigation by Koskinen's team is further strained by the hit-and-run case of a dubious music manager and the mysterious Carl Friedrich. When a new body is found in Lake Näsijärvi, the connection between the victims is made clear.

После проваленной неофициальной операции, завершившейся гибелью ребенка, оперативника Европейского полицейского спецподразделения по борьбе с киберпреступностью Маркуса Таннера отправляют на родину, в Хельсинки. Через некоторое время, его бывшую напарницу, шведку Сильвию Мадсен, прикомандировывают сопровождать одиозного французского генерала Мореля на праздновании дня Независимости Финляндии.

The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise.

Пока вся страна соблюдает карантин, трое незнакомых мужчин среднего возраста случайно встречаются в баре в центре Хельсинки. В течение ночи они вместе разбираются в жизненных ситуациях с целью получить ответы на вопрос «И как жить дальше?».

Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.

Туро уже исполнилось двадцать пять лет и он живёт в Финляндии. Его блэк-метал-группа Impaled Rektum существует уже не один год, но за всё это время они так и не дали ни одного концерта. Всё меняется в одночасье — ребят приглашают на метал-фестиваль, который пройдет в Норвегии. Ребята, естественно, рады такому предложению, ведь это реальный шанс заявить о себе во весь голос. На пути они столкнутся с множеством препятствий, среди которых будет и бегство от полиции, и противостояние с викингами, и выкапывание трупов из могил.

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

История финской горнодобывающей компании «Талвиваара». В марте 2012 компания получила лицензию на добычу урана, что могло бы сделать Финляндию энергетически независимой державой. Планировалось на никелевом руднике в Соткамо выделять уран из добываемой руды для дальнейшей продажи. «Талвиваара» уверенно шла к своей цели, пренебрегая мнением экологических организаций и десятка министров — противников ядерной энергетики. Но вскоре жители Соткамо стали жаловаться, что вода в соседних озерах стала солёной, в прессе начали появляться фотографии с местных водоемов, покрытых пеной. Эти и другие тревожные сигналы означали одно: начало конца рудного Гиганта.

A boss invites an underling and his family for dinner.

Фильм — биография шведской королевы Кристины (1626 — 1689). Твердый характер сочетался в ней с ненасытной жаждой знаний. Она требовала немедленного исполнения всех своих желаний и была склонна к экстравагантным поступкам, шокировавшим ее окружение. Все время на престоле она враждовала с Советом, стремившимся ограничить власть монарха. Совет желал маленькую победоносную войну, а королева решила строить в Стокгольме самую большую библиотеку в Европе. Совет требовал от нее выйти замуж, но Кристина заявляла, что не желает иметь детей. Возмущенная поведением королевы аристократия решает отстранить ее от власти…

Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki

Both diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, politicians Esko Seppänen and Iiro Viinanen forge a deep friendship despite their ideological differences.

A woman meets a man who tells her that they have known each other 11 years ago and wishes to take her out. Woman does not recall him and in her mind she thinks back and goes through several random meetings from the past, yet he does not seem to be any of those men from her past. Woman continues the relationship and tries to solve the mystery, which at the end is revealed.

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.

Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.

The script of this film was very loose and most of the dialog was improvised by the cast

Mobile Horror based on Juha Jokela's play of same name, telling the story of small firm struggle in 2000 it-boom

История Микаэля. После развода со своей первой женой с ним остался сын-старшеклассник, Дани. Затем у него появилась новая семья — жена Лаура, у которой есть сын-первоклассник. Через 17 лет после развода первая жена Микаэля умирает, и он вынужден взять к себе оставшуюся без дома дочь — Тильду. Однажды сын Микаэля, Дани, влюбляется. Преисполненный решимости избавить сына от привязанности, которую он считает позорной, Микэль делает все от него зависящее. Но когда все его усилия оказываются тщетными, отчаявшийся Микаэль объявляет крестовый поход всем, кто стоит на его пути, включая бывшую жену и детей. Между тем, ситуация становится все безнадежной — надо учитывать, что объект привязанности Даниила не кто-нибудь, а его собственная сестра…

A Finnish drama about the short term of Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. Hans hires Samu to go on a mission with him: to find Laura, the daughter of his recently deceased best friend and brother in arms. The quest to find Laura leads the men around the wintry city, to places and people from Hans's past. As Samu watches Hans confront his past, he begins to open his eyes to his own future. When the eventful mission reaches its end, both of the men's lives are forever changed.

Тридцатилетняя пара разводится. Они разлюбили друг друга, но по-прежнему без ума от собственного дома на берегу озера. Ни один из бывших супругов не хочет покидать общее жилище, и, чтобы облегчить совместное существование в новых условиях, они решают установить ряд правил, соблюдать которые обязаны оба. Например – никаких новых жильцов в доме. То есть новых любовников приводить нельзя. Однако, именно это правило и будет нарушено первым. Жена позвонит бывшему партнеру на одну ночь, который тут же примчится на спортивном самолете. А муж закажет девушку по вызову, из-за приезда которой все пойдет совсем кувырком

Visa Vuorio (Tobias Zilliacus), a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen (Helena Vierikko), arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret.

Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.

Герой фильма по имени Койстинен, как и маленький бродяга Чаплина, пытается найти небольшую щель в жестком мире, в которую он может протиснуться, чтобы обрести свое место, но его коллеги по работе и бездушные чиновники растаптывают его надежды одну за другой. Банда преступников, узнав, что он работает охранником в торговом центре, используют его одиночество и жажду любви, выкрадывают у него ключи и организуют ограбление ювелирного магазина. Они подставляют его с помощью красивой подруги главаря банды, которая хладнокровно обманывает героя, притворившись влюбленной в него бедной девушкой. В результате Койстинен теряет работу, свободу и все свои надежды…

The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.

When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.

Harri, a usually calm middle-aged man, loses his temper at a bar. His behavior towards the bartender Raija weighs on his mind, so he returns to make things up to her. This ends up being the catalyst for an unlikely and unwitting relationship between the two.

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.

Безработный и безымянный мужчина, обитатель финской провинции, едет в Хельсинки с единственной надеждой — найти работу. Но не успеет он сойти с поезда на вокзале, как тут же будет жестоко избит местными хулиганами, избит буквально до смерти. Его доставят в больницу, где он умрет. Умрет, чтобы тут же воскреснуть и, полностью потеряв память, обнаружить себя в совсем другом, нежном Хельсинки. Чтобы забыть прошлое, отказаться от него и получить от судьбы новый шанс. Этот шанс — встреча с Ирмой, женщиной в форме офицера Армии спасения.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens - he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, and he makes a genuine effort to remain faithful to her. But old habits die hard; Tiina introduces Ari to her circle of friends and temptation arises as he encounters Hanna-Riikka, a theology student, and Ilona, who is soon to be married. Despite Ari's feelings for Tiina, he begins having affairs with both Hanna-Riikka and Ilona, leading to an unpleasant revelation on the day of Ilona's nuptials. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi

When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.

В фильме «Дети Рая» - Иева, волевая и амбициозная бизнесмен, мечтает построить спа-центр "Paradiso Baltica".

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.

The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.

Ossi (Antti Litja) hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.

High-class prostitute Bella works for hotel manager TT with Sara, Lulu and Cindy. However, Bella misses the ordinary life and love of her youth Timo, who is a hockey player on the team owned by TT.

Directed by Matti Ijäs and written with Arto Meller, Räpsy & Dolly aka Paris Waits (1990) is a tragicomic love story of a petty criminal and a former cabaret dancer. Detective Karisto (Kari Väänänen) releases Auno "Räpsy" Pirilä (Matti Pellonpää) from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje (Pertti Sveholm) from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly (Raija Paalanen) takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.

Фильм посвящен финским солдатам, сражавшимся в "Зимней войне" и оборонявших линию Манергейма. Литературный классик Антти Туури, сочинивший сюжет для фильма «Зимняя война», не прогадал. Режиссер Пекки Парикк снял батальный эпос о событиях зимней войны 39-40 годов. Фильм вышел на экраны в 1989-м, и по сути стал самым кассовым финским фильмом года. Будет любопытен любителям исторических фильмов про войну, особенно интересен взгляд "с другой стороны".

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.

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.

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of film.

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react

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.

Eccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.