Erkki Karu Movies

Fisherman Eerik Storm is in danger of losing his home and agrees to get money to be piloted by smugglers. When the customs officers surprise the...

Set during the recession of the early 1930s, Reino, an engineer who has been laid off from a shipyard, is not considered suitable as a son-in-law for...

Young married couple, Martti and Ulla, are spending a carefree weekend at their Rauhanlehto villa. Their peace is disrupted when the in-laws and...

Örn, an aging countess, reminisces on the tragic fate of the young lovers, Carl-Johan Örn and Margareta by the family grave.

A documentary film about Finland commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and produced by Suomi-Filmi Oy.

Polyteekkarifilmi (Polytekarfilmen) is a Finnish silent documentary film dating from 1924. The subtitle of the documentary is "The story of sport,...

Erkki Karu's comedy The Poet Moves (1927) was completed as a companion piece to the film The Changeling (1927). The homeless poet Eero Keso (Ossi...

In the rural landscape of southern Häme, the lost will of the recently deceased Ojala is being sought. In its absence, Olli, the master's...

A suitor arrives at Kaiku's house, who has mistaken both the house and the person, and causes a series of commotions

The silent comedy The Engagement of a Student in the Oak Tree (1920) is the first film by producer-director-screenwriter Erkki Karu. It has survived...

After naval sergeant Pekka Kuusisto runs into his old crush, nurse Leila, she stays on his mind as he embarks on a submarine combat exercise.

Olli, the spoiled young heir of the Koivumäki manor, is separated from his family and brought to Sweden by his cousin. After running away to...

The heavily indebted baron Henrik von Hagen, who loves women and partying, learns that his former lover, Russian ballerina Madame Vera Vasiljevna,...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns out to be a German lieutenant Braun. Braun and his...

After Matti is stabbed to death at his own wedding, Eero of Ojelmiston becomes a suspect, presumed to have avenged his recently deceased wife. Eero...

A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.

Rural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding. From a comedy by Alexis Kivi.

The story, set in the 19th century, revolves around the hot-blooded Jussi, a young farmer, and his friend Antti and their brushes with the local...

The Suomi-Filmi documentary depicts the three-day visit of King Christian X of Denmark to Helsinki. The king visits art museums, the Lotta Svärd...

Suomi-Filmi Oy's silent documentary follows the official four-day state visit of King Gustav V of Sweden and his wife Queen Victoria to Finland in...