Elvi Saarnio Movies

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the...

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

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...

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and...

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...

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a...

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.