Movies: Ensio Suominen

Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children....

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army....

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy......

Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production....

A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family....

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price....

A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals....

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s 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 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives u...

Jussi Koskela clears a plot of land for his family in the village of Pentinkulma in southern Häme. His son Akseli joins the Red Guard and takes part in the Civil War of 1918, at the end of which he is imprisoned. After his release, Akseli returns to ...

The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist....

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella....

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outra...

Log driver brothers and crooks compete in trying to find loot of an old bank robbery in a supposedly haunted inn....

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting....

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service....

Comedic musical film in which Iskelmä OY's manager has to deal with rising stars and old seniors....

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self w...