Cast: Vieno Saaristo

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Silu Seppälä · Marjo Leinonen · Matti Pellonpää · Vieno Saaristo

Plot Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into...

Direction Markku Pölönen

Cast Peter Franzén · Taisto Reimaluoto · Ahti Kuoppala · Ville Virtanen

Plot Mertsi, an idealist, who even went to war as a volunteer and returned crippled. His overwhelming idealism transforms itself into a small act- that of clipping a dog's nails- and...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Matti Oravisto · Kauko Laurikainen · Paul Budsko · Heimo Lepistö

Plot Lieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944...

Direction Pirjo Honkasalo

Cast Elina Hurme · Tiina Weckström · Elena Leeve · Elsa Saisio

Plot The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother,...