Kaarlo Saarnio Movies

Jack Coski (Jaakko Koski) returns to Helsinki and gets impressed by co-op Elanto.

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Cast: Heikki Välisalmi

Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilkka Helinä

Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Kara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sauli Seppälä

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Rinne

Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olga Tainio

Tornionjokilaakso at the end of the 19th century, Paloniemi's landlord Heikki tries to get out of his financial difficulties with the help of his son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jalmari Rinne

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tapio Rautavaara

A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Liisa Tuomi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsa Turakainen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yrjö Tuominen

Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regina Linnanheimo

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regina Linnanheimo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ester Toivonen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maaria Eira

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933)...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Axel Slangus

Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsa Turakainen

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Åke Lindman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anneli Sauli

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Set in the 1890s, Anna-Liisa and Johannes are young lovers. She agrees to his proposal because she is afraid that her crime will be revealed. Husso,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervi Järventaus

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veli-Matti Kaitala

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Theel

Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Theel

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Rinne

Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martti Katajisto

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eemeli

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rakel Laakso

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tuija Halonen

A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunvor Sandkvist

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Santeri Karilo

Forester Antti Kare and manager John Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heikki Välisalmi

A historical drama depicting the Finnish struggle against Tsarist Russia. Opens at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in February 1899. Tsar...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aarne Leppänen

The rambunctious Priscilla Paukkaja breaks into the home of Foreign Ministry official Raimo Vehar and his girlfriend Marja and appoints herself the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hertta Leistén

Set in Southern Finland between 1912 and 1936. Due to his father's drunkenness, high school student Jussi Raala has lost his inheritance, the manor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugo Hytönen

Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irma Seikkula

Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

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

Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Regina Linnanheimo

The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen. After the studies, Vappu and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Kara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raino Hämäläinen

The film starts at the countryside, where station master Viirimäki is spending his summer holiday. He has gotten into the holiday mood to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anneli Sauli

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kullervo Kalske

Niilo, a son of a rich estate owner, is in love with a poor crofter's adopted daughter Heleena. However, on his father's orders, Niilo instead...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Lindh

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rauni Luoma

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Unto Salminen

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää