Asta Backman Movies

The year is 1895 in a small village in Savo, where new ideas such as women's rights and folk high schools are vehemently opposed by Pastor...

A film about the destiny of cashier disappointed in love.

This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to 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...

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father...

After her mother's death, Irja, an evacuee girl, finds herself in a poor financial situation. Working as a housekeeper for her former teacher on a...

An existential road movie based on Veijo Meri's novel Peiliin piirretty nainen (The Woman in the Mirror, 1963), following the life of a taxi driver...

A Finnish television play based on August Strindberg’s original.