Elvi Saarnio Movies

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

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

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...

A couple decides to adopt a child. At the orphanage, they hear three different stories about the children who have arrived there and their fates.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

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

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

Mauritz Grafvenhjelm, alias Moppe, an impoverished nobleman, and his friend Ville enjoy a carefree life as vagabonds in summery Porvoo until Moppe...

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

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

A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

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...

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.