Elvi Saarnio

Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone....

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series....

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a...

Mauritz Grafvenhjelm, alias Moppe, an impoverished nobleman, and his friend Ville enjoy a carefree life as vagabonds in summery Porvoo until Moppe...

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and...

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.

Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of...

A couple decides to adopt a child. At the orphanage, they hear three different stories about the children who have arrived there and their fates.

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being...

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.

The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride...

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry...

The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen. After the studies, Vappu and...

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth. After her father's death, Marja is plunged...

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

In this story, which focuses on the events of a single evening, Kaarlo Kaarila, a dedicated chief physician, discovers that his wife Irja is having...

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.