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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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....

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

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...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

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

A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.

Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of...

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

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.