The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier 1955

7.40

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.

1955

Opettajatar seikkailee

Opettajatar seikkailee 1960

4.80

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.

1960

Inspector Palmu's Error

Inspector Palmu's Error 1960

7.00

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

1960

Valkoiset ruusut

Valkoiset ruusut 1943

5.40

Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten.

1943

Aatamin puvussa – ja vähän Eevankin…

Aatamin puvussa – ja vähän Eevankin… 1940

2.00

The holiday of Pharmacist Himanen and Lieutenant Paavo Kehkonen turns into a nightmare when they pick up Station Chief Viirimäki, who is in a hurry to get to work. Their boat engine dies and runs into the rocks, leaving them stranded on an island with no clothes. Posing as a woman, Himanen gets to know the police chief's daughter Alli, but as a result of coincidences and misunderstandings, the two men end up in jail, each suspected in turn of being a fugitive Vikström.

1940

Kultamitalivaimo

Kultamitalivaimo 1947

5.00

Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.

1947

Isän vanha ja uusi

Isän vanha ja uusi 1955

3.00

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.

1955

Sven Tuuva the Hero

Sven Tuuva the Hero 1958

5.00

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.

1958

Miesmalli

Miesmalli 1944

4.00

A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona. Dressed as a vagabond, he soon starts to please Ilona and her many lady friends as shows quick learning skills and soon shows great knowledge of history, art, and literature.

1944

Helmikuun manifesti

Helmikuun manifesti 1939

5.00

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

1939