Screenplay: Valentin Vaala

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Valentin Vaala. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Surrogate Husband

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Tuulikki Paananen · Tauno Palo · Uuno Laakso · Regina Linnanheimo

Plot Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. She lies that she has recently...

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People in the Summer Night

1948 · Movie · 66 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Eila Pehkonen · Martti Katajisto · Emma Väänänen · Eero Roine

Plot A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside....

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The Gipsy Charmer

1929 · Movie · 69 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Teuvo Tulio · Meri Hackzell · Alli Riks · Hanna Taini

Plot The movie features Tulio as Manjardo, the leader of a Roma camp, who has two admirers: Akris and Glafira. However, Manjardo has already been forced to accept an arranged marriage...

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The Broad Way

1931 · Movie · 91 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Teuvo Tulio · Eeva Virtanen · Alli Riks · Kaarlo Penttilä

Plot Master violist and womanizer Antti Larto rounds around Europe by performing and spending all his free time in restaurants. While he is visiting Finland, he falls in love with a...

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Green Gold

1938 · Movie · 86 min. · Finland

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Hulda from Juurakko

1937 · Movie · 82 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Irma Seikkula · Tauno Palo · Topo Leistelä · Hugo Hytönen

Plot Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never...

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Substitute Wife

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · Finland

Direction Valentin Vaala

Cast Ansa Ikonen · Tauno Palo · Uuno Laakso · Kirsti Suonio

Plot Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when she finds...

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