Heimo Lepistö

Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous...

Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest...

A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an...

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus...

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

Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's...

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He...

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he...

A story about the passengers of the inland waterway Heinävesi. Salli, the daughter of the captain, dreams of an acting career and joins a...

A major wounded in war falls in love with a nurse who has been widowed in the hospital. However, their love is hindered by the death of the nurse's...

Two upstart families compete while trying to overcome the generation cap with their children.

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

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and...

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend...

The director of the Vaudeville Theater is looking for new performers after the former star was forced to give up her singing career. Out of numerous...

Heta, the strong-willed daughter of the Niskavuori family, who is pregnant, marries Akusti, a farmhand, and remains bitter toward Santeria, who broke...

St. Peter's announcement interrupts the Welcome to Morning Coffee radio program. He asks people for help because he does not know whether private...

Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.

Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In...

Composer and program director Harri forms a quartet, recruiting Apon, Teika, Kauko, and Olli as members. Based on an idea from Olli's beloved Raija,...

The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the...

After her mother's death, Irja, an evacuee girl, finds herself in a poor financial situation. Working as a housekeeper for her former teacher on a...

Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the...

Young Anna marries Tuomas, an old widower. Tuomas reluctantly sells his forest to the boss of Ruukki and is forced to take in a group of loggers,...

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained...

Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard...

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining...

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book. Young lovers Pirkko and Pekka break off their engagement at the end of an evening spent at a...

In the heart of Savo, police officer Kontkanen is searching for Heikki, a man suspected of selling alcohol. At the same time, he tries to catch the...

Merchant Ville arrives in Malaga with his secretary Esa to meet Outsider regarding a valuable inheritance. Esa falls in love with Spanish beauty...

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and...

After a robbery, a gang of bandits led by Kulaus-Ramperi flees Helsinki on the Kuopio express train "Lentävä kalakukko" and tries to hide in the...

The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by...

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of...

A stepfather forces Liisa, an orphan girl, to leave her small town and go to Helsinki alone to sell brooms. With the help of a friendly vagrant named...

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

Traveler Severi travels to Helsinki to enjoy some culture, where he meets Sinikka and Simo, who run a buying and selling business. At a customs...

Elmeri Vara from the General Stabilization Party, Selma Vuorinen from the Free Enlightenment Party, and Irja Solanen from the Independent Women's...

Factory manager Risto Järviö is under his mother's thumb. When his mother forbids him from dancing with factory girl Seija Vaara, Seija decides to...

A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if...

A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.

Young Vesterinen gets to fulfill his musical dreams with the support of his friend Mirja. His passion for playing the accordion takes Vili from...

A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.

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...

Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.

Anna, the mistress of Riihala, runs the farm while her idle husband drinks and their heir, Antti, courts Elma, a maid from the neighboring farm. Anna...

Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After...

Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.

Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.

Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday

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...

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for...

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from...

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for...

Eeva serves two noblemen, who have treated their servant badly. She writes to her childhood friend Aapel and proposes marriage. The man does not...

The proud widow of Sillankorva falls in love with her young neighbor, Jaakko Hallan, whom she offers to take in as her son. However, much to the...

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

An idle work crew is ordered to go and heat up an abandoned house before it is demolished. A road sign pointing in the wrong direction leads them...

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money...

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova...

Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same...