Topo Leistelä Movies

Set in Southern Finland between 1912 and 1936. Due to his father's drunkenness, high school student Jussi Raala has lost his inheritance, the manor...

Taavetti, the young master of Rantasuo, refuses to give up, even though frost destroys his harvest, a crooked logger steals his forest money, and a...

Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations...

Performances by the Vyborg Music Institute's children's orchestra and choir on the sets of a film studio.

Heavily indebted Commissioner Birger seeks to marry the wealthy Helena. The young lady rejects his advances and longs for her childhood friend...

Continuation War Review 10/41 Cannon operations. Pioneer repair work. Railway cannons. Hägglund's visit to Paalu. Views of the Aunus village,...

A widower takes care of his three children who are trying to find him a new wife.

Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher...

Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie....

The film presents SOK's bakeries and factory production in Turku, Vyborg, Jyväskylä and Kuopio.

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in...

Presentation of the Kallio fire station and its operations.

A short film filmed by Uno Pihlström and narrated by Topo Leistelä about the work and activities of the Finnish police force in 1937.

Studying at the Ateneum Central School of Art and Design. A free-form short documentary, a cultural portrait of the "cradle" of Finnish art, the...

An industrial film about the Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union

Blind since birth, Antreas Tuurio earns a meager living selling brushes at the Market Square. Despite his disability, he is a cheerful and optimistic...

The second part of Suomi-Filmi's Mannerheim trilogy, which was shown in early 1938. While Bio Maxim filmed Mannerheim's 70th birthday celebrations...

Pictures of the mining area, extraction, concentrator, workers' housing area and recreational opportunities.

A film about forestry work using old and new methods. Forestry work and the use of wood before and during the war.

A film about the history of Finland since 1918.