Esko Nikkari Movies

Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the...

TV play about the legend of Lalli.

In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish’s housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that...

Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and...

Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to...

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with...

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive...

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon...

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed...

Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical...

Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both...

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name,...

A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing. Local boss...

Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.