Yrjö Tähtelä Movies

Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirill Lavrov

A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marjatta Lahtonen

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aino Mantsas

A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Pekka Sahenkari

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ritva Vepsä

Bis später, ich muß mich erschießen is based on Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Olbrychski

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Veikko Sinisalo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riitta Hämäläinen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommi Rinne

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yrjö Tähtelä

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaarlo Halttunen

Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yrjö Tähtelä

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maija Karhi

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thelma Ramström

A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anneli Sauli

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bo Brundin

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Mardi

Rudolf Räpylä is ordered to organize a big show night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a record company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yrjö Tähtelä

A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keijo Komppa

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yrjö Tähtelä

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raili Metsä

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pertti Melasniemi

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vesa-Matti Loiri

Ritva Hakala the single parent of a little boy is working in the office. While Ritva talks lightly about men and her future plans with other women at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ossi Ahlapuro

An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pekka Haukinen

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matti Ruohola

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shenda Román

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asko Sarkola

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Evgeni Leonov