Direction: Mikko Niskanen

Direction Mikko Niskanen

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

Synopsis 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 of the German "Menschen am Sonntag" of 1929. It showcases...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Heikki Paavilainen · Timo Torikka · Tero Niva · Sanna Majanlahti

Synopsis Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Martti Kainulainen · Pirjo Leppänen · Teuvo Remes · Tapio Remes

Synopsis A curious and stubborn boy Kalle has to grow up fast in northern Finland in the 1920s. When his lumberjack father gets ill, Kalle has to take his place as a provider for the family.

Direction Mikko Niskanen

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

Synopsis 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 villagers nasty and false rumours. Desperate Ville starts to hear...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

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

Synopsis 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 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Kristiina Halkola · Kirsti Wallasvaara · Aulikki Oksanen · Pekka Laiho

Synopsis Film follows young students living in Helsinki with its focus on 3 couples. They celebrate Labor day, go to the lectures and discuss about social criticism, antiwar movement and radicalism. In the middle of all this they still are able...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala · Mikko Niskanen · Paavo Pentikäinen · Tauno Paananen

Synopsis Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Pentti Tarkiainen · Vesa-Matti Loiri · Uti Saurio · Hannu Vironmäki

Synopsis The life of a group of school boys in Oulu in northern Finland during the Continuation War, in the turbulent period of the World War II. The young men, in the absence of their fathers who have gone to war,...