Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish...

1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other...

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish...

Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä"...

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence...

In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket...

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...

Included in this package of three hours of nudies from the 60's and early 70's are "Gorilla and the stripper", "Laila wakes up", "Laila takes a...

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic...

A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration...

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent...

A middle aged widower Sanna has emigrated to Sweden after her husband's death . She lives in Linköping with her two children and works in the local...

About a love triangle. Unidentified takes by Arne Mattsson.

Glenn Nygård, a 40 year old tomato-planter has for the past five years been falling in love with the local bar-keeper Laila. His harsh father has...

Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.