Yrjö Tähtelä

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet Väinö...

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

A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

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...

Kalle leaves with his wife for their honeymoon in Airisto, but instead of a rental car, he mistakenly takes the getaway car stolen by robbers for a...

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

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

Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him...

In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with...

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling...

A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced...

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During World War II, Laila rescues a crashed German fighter pilot,...

Rudolf Räpylä is ordered to organize a big show night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a record company.

Based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at...

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The...

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league....

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help...

Ritva Hakala the single parent of a little boy is working in the office. While Ritva talks lightly about men and her future plans with other women at...

An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

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

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.

Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is...

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.