Juhani Niemelä

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland’s Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a ...

The story of Veikko, whose values are thrown into crisis in a profit-driven society. However, Veikko does not give up. His sense of justice is ...

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father’s reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the ...

Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the ...

Umur tells a love story strongly connected to the nature of Lapland, in which Poika, a young border guard played with sensitivity by Heikki ...

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely ...

In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon ...

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing. Local ...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

In this gloomy scenario about Finland’s upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by ...

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström ...

Antti “Zombie” Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months’ sleeping on the streets of ...

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an ...

About a boy who wants to bring a Christmas tree into his house for the first time.

The second part of Hella Wuolijoki’s family saga. Heta Niskavuori marries Akusti, a farmhand. Together, they build a magnificent house from ...

Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he ...

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return ...