Liisamaija Laaksonen

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with...

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...

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge...

Iris Klewe is brought from her forest cottage by her bank-manager uncle Kaarlo Heinonen to attend school in Helsinki, where his wife and elder...

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind.

Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league...

Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three...

A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going...

The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go...

Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up...

Erkki leaves the army and sets out to find himself. In the countryside, he finds new love and the courage to stand up to his strict father.

Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been...

Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.

Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the...

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it.