Elvi Saarnio Movies

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone....

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

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

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

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...

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth. After her father's death, Marja is plunged...

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

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

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....