Pentti Saares Movies

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...

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....

A story about one man's success and another's demise. Algoth Mäki, who moved to southern Finland in search of work, encounters the harsh world...

Lecturer Aarre is dating Emmi, a saleswoman at a fabric store. The small-town social circles do not approve of relationships that cross class...

Sirkka feels she's doing the right thing when she kills her cruel stepfather. But there is a witness to the murder, the musician Eino. However, he...

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

Merchant Iivari encounters significant challenges in his entrepreneurial career when Merthen, a commercial counselor, attempts to prevent his...

The confident Colonel (ret.) Rainer Sarmo, alias 'Dead Man', charms women and knocks out crooks. Together with his friend Captain (ret.) Mikko...

Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when...

The Finnish coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.

Leeni, a country girl, leaves to seek her fortune in Helsinki, but encounters numerous difficulties.

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

Rainer Sarmo and Mikko Vehmer stumble upon a Russian counterfeit league. They help Leila Varta, who tries to save her brother Raimo from the evil...

Lieutenant Ville Somero investigates a sabotage at a fortress site on the Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1939. His suspicions are directed at the...