From the big band Ramblers to the chorus girls – everyone is giving their best. Matti Rajula on sax, Asser Fagerström on piano and Eric Tidlund on vibraphone. Singer Olavi Virta steps on stage and performs "mi onni tuo...". Margaretha von Bahr gives a fiery performance.
Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.
The film follows a dress rehearsal of a charity concert.
He does what he can to be comfortable.
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
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A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
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 moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
A bored rich girl falls in love with a dock worker.
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 self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
A kind-hearted chancellor dreams of love with a beauty he meets at dinner.
After many mishaps, City Engineer Volmari arrives at the masquerade ball wearing a suit of knight's armor from the museum. He dances with his blind date crush Raili until Bertha, the black singer from the circus, pulls him away and a new whirlwind of misunderstandings begins.
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.
The film tells the story of a wandering barrel organ player's daily, tragic life in the back streets of the Finnish cities.
The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
Mikko's wife and children have moved in with another man. Unhappy Mikko unexpectedly receives a letter from his old friend Aki. Aki invites Mikko to join him in Haaravaara for a hunting trip. The hunting trip turns into a meeting between two very unhappy men after many years apart.
