Esko Salminen Movies

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor,...

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is...

11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs....

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a...

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and...

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...