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Matti Ruohola
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A Worker's Diary
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
Taksikuski
An existential road movie based on Veijo Meri's novel Peiliin piirretty nainen (The Woman in the Mirror, 1963), following the life of a taxi driver from one evening to the next morning.
Se tavallinen tarina
Yön saalistajat
A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei
Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
Vapaa duunari Ville-Kalle
Ville-Kalle Mölsä, a devoted rural environmentalist, accidentally blows up his family’s toxic storage and must flee to the city, where he stays with his eccentric cousin “Pikkusedä” and falls for Liisa despite her godfather’s plans.
Jänikset maailmankartalle!
"For too long rabbits and players have been mocked. Now it's come to a stop," declares the long-eared Kukurtaja, captured by the Vihavaino, governor of the castle. A rogue-like adventure story is set in the latter part of 1700s, in an island-fortress.
A Witch Drum
In a barren, snowy Lapland landscape a man in a reindeer sled escorts a shaman's corpse to its final resting place. In the pale moonlight the fear is starting to take over, since something has awakened the shaman.
Onnentyttö
Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
Agent 000 gets involved in high-octane action in this Finnish James Bond parody.
Visa Mäkinen - My movie
Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.
Pi pi pil… pilleri
A crackpot inventor tests his newest invention, a pill that removes all sexual inhibitions, on unsuspecting guests and staff members at a health spa.
Kesäkapina
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
Laituri
A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.