Cinematography: Esko Nevalainen

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Eero Melasniemi · Kristiina Halkola · Pekka Autiovuori · Kirsti Wallasvaara

Plot This depiction of four urban youths and their excursion to the countryside was among the most popular films of the 1960s in Finland. It tackles a theme that is reminiscent...

Direction Erkko Kivikoski

Cast Maarita Mäkelä · Eero Melasniemi · Kurt Ingvall · Urpo Poikolainen

Plot Marja is a 24-year-old Finnish teacher at a grammar school. One morning, while on their way to work, she and a colleague come across Antti, a student who is drunk...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Joel Rinne · Matti Ranin · Leo Jokela · Elina Salo

Plot Kaasua, Komisario Palmu! AKA Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961) is based loosely on the short novel written by the critically acclaimed Finnish author, Mika Waltari. This black and white thriller, shot...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Joel Rinne · Leo Jokela · Matti Ranin · Inga Sulin

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Eero Melasniemi · Kirsti Wallasvaara · Pekka Autiovuori · Mirjami Manninen

Plot Ville Herman, a small town librarian falls in love with janitors daughter Liisa. Ville has already rumoured to have some mental problems and now their young love is shadowed by...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Holger Salin · Liisa Nevalainen · Petri Tanner · Jukka Eklund

Plot In 1906, a poor farmer in the backwoods of Finland -- then part of Russia -- struggles to make a living for his wife and four children. He hears about...

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Kristiina Halkola · Liisamaija Laaksonen · Jörn Donner · Jukka Virtanen

Plot Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality...

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 Aarne Tarkas

Cast Risto Mäkelä · Rauha Rentola · Rose-Marie Precht · Åke Lindman

Plot An irritable and grumpy accountant decides to steal a $25-million payroll of his company while faking his own death. However, to make it happen he kills an innocent bystander and...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Toivo Mäkelä · Emma Väänänen · Rauni Luoma · Aino-Maija Tikkanen