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Rottasota (1968)
Character: ministeri Arvo Mäkinen
A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
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Kahden ladun poikki (1958)
Character: Markku
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, among whom the handsome womanizer Humu begins to seduce the young mistress of the house.
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Morsiusseppele (1954)
Character: Per
A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
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Säkkijärven polkka (1955)
Character: Jaakko Perälä
Young Vesterinen gets to fulfill his musical dreams with the support of his friend Mirja. His passion for playing the accordion takes Vili from Viipuri to Helsinki, where his friendship with pianist Jaakko helps him advance his career.
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Kielletty kirja (1965)
Character: N/A
An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.
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Iloinen Linnanmäki (1960)
Character: Turpeinen's lawyer
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
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Särkelä itte (1947)
Character: Martti Fallsten
The self-assured manager Julius Särkelä maintains strict discipline in his office and at home, which is experienced by his daughter Saara and her suitor Martti, as well as the landlord Heroja, who is chasing his debts, and even the cat belonging to the patron Fallsten. Dr. Kosonen softens the stern leader by giving a speech at a party, which ultimately revolutionizes Särkelä's worldview.
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Herra sotaministeri (1957)
Character: (uncredited)
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 Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Problems in the performance of his duties lead Kalle to a court martial, and he resigns from his ministerial post to start a new life with his neighbor Leena.
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Autuas eversti (1958)
Character: Arthur
Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the runaway lovers. In the end, the funeral turns into a wedding and honeymoon.
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis! (1960)
Character: Albert
Eemeli leaves the countryside for Helsinki to obtain tax money for the bailiff who is pursuing him. In the capital, he becomes the assistant driver of Andersson, a cab driver. One night while driving, Eemeli meets Vesa and his little sister Jaana, whom Andersson and his granddaughter Katriina take into their family as foster children.
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Tyttö tuli taloon (1956)
Character: Lillian's date
Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it's their cousin's.
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Mikä yö! (1945)
Character: Leo Barring
Colonel Barring has purchased the Maanala estate, where strange things are happening. She wants to cancel the sale and writes to Major Hector, who is acting as the owner's representative. The major sets off for the estate with the colonel, his wife, his nephew George, and George's fiancée Vappu. The colonel's son Leo also arrives, accompanied by his new love interest, Sirka. The group spends an unforgettable night in the haunted house.
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Luottamus (1976)
Character: N/A
In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.
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Kohtalo tekee siirron (1959)
Character: Reino Petäjämaa
Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
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Onnelliset (1954)
Character: Karl-Erik Grahn
Pianist Lauri Alango and his wife Annina's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.
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Suomisen Olli yllättää (1945)
Character: Pauli
Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations with his family is in turmoil. He also finds the sweet life in restaurants more exhilarating than being in the school and reading books for the forthcoming student exams.
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Pikku suorasuu (1962)
Character: Ström
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 children resent the poor foster girl while only the youngest child and the cook show her kindness. Kaarlo’s financial troubles start to threaten Iris’s inheritance.
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen (1959)
Character: (uncredited)
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
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Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968)
Character: Carl Wallen
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 ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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Sven Tuuva (1958)
Character: Weber
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 Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
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Evakko (1956)
Character: Pioneeri (uncredited)
Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. The film has a surprisingly perky tone for the subject matter.
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Kesäillan valssi (1951)
Character: Karl-Erik Grahn
A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.
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Tuntematon sotilas (1955)
Character: Doctor
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
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Kuningas kulkureitten (1953)
Character: Martin von Tandenskiöld, "Martti"
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 Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.
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Ruusu ja kulkuri (1948)
Character: Paul Hanneborg
The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.
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Sinut minä tahdon (1949)
Character: Erkki Kovalinna
Katri Vesa, a young woman from Helsinki, has fallen in love with Erkki Kovalinna, an ambitious young official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is prepared to do anything to win his affection. At her friend's suggestion, Katri leaves the city to make Erkki miss her and finds her life's mission in the countryside in Kari Tuulos, a scientist who lost his sight in an explosion.
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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli? (1952)
Character: N/A
St. Peter's announcement interrupts the Welcome to Morning Coffee radio program. He asks people for help because he does not know whether private detective Uljas Uriel Vaaksanpää has died or is still alive. The strange events are followed from the perspective of different characters.
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Kuollut mies kummittelee (1952)
Character: Timo Muura
Sarmo explores the mystery associated with the murder of a landowner and the tangle of crimes, threats, and conspiracies created by a letter he left behind. At the same time Sarmo helps the consuls of imaginary small states of South America in a difficult situation, and charms their daughters.
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Onni etsii asuntoa (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
Due to the post-war housing shortage, Pirkko, who has nowhere to sleep, is given accommodation at the full-service guesthouse run by landlady Töttermanska. There she meets the other residents: student Eskoo, foreman Heikki, antique dealer Theodor, and businessman Roope, whose acquaintance with the beautiful Dolly draws the whole group into criminal activities.
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Toukokuun taika (1948)
Character: Asko Kari
Tuija Suvi, who works as a model, is delivering a dress to the daughter of a commercial counselor, but she has an accident and ends up meeting musician Asko Kari. Asko assumes that Tuija is the daughter of the commercial counselor and ends up inviting her to a restaurant, where both try to pretend to be something they are not. Gradually, however, the couple begins to truly fall in love with each other.
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Jossain on railo (1949)
Character: Bertil Carénius
Helsinki judge Wilhelm Thorén arrives to investigate the financial mess at Niementaustan Manor. The estate of the declining Carenius noble family is on the verge of bankruptcy and should be put up for sale.
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Silmät hämärässä (1952)
Character: The Athlete
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 anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
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