Veikko Sinisalo Movies

A documentary about three of Finland's major cities: Turku, Tampere, and Helsinki, showcasing each city's history, geography, and culture.

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Cast: Mai-Brit Heljo

Opri is an evacuee from Karelia and is forced to move into a nursing home when his cottage is demolished. He immediately begins to take care of other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rakel Laakso

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

In the 1880s, an unruly group of Cossacks stays in Sankola's house in Hämälä. Soon the group's leader Kuisma sets his sights on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kosti Klemelä

The greedy lord of the manor, von Wurstburg, lives lavishly on his estate, heavily taxing the local peasants, when the official heir to the estate,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juhani Kumpulainen

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Aarno Sulkanen

Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marko Tiusanen

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

Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Veikko Sinisalo

Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night,...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ahti Jokinen

Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ere Kokkonen