Yrjö Tähtelä Movies

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced...

In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with...

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Kalle leaves with his wife for their honeymoon in Airisto, but instead of a rental car, he mistakenly takes the getaway car stolen by robbers for a...

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...

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen...

A stepfather forces Liisa, an orphan girl, to leave her small town and go to Helsinki alone to sell brooms. With the help of a friendly vagrant named...

Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling...

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and...

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The...

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...