Movies: Leena Valkeala

  • 1949
    Orpopojan valssi

    Orpopojan valssi (1949)

    Orpopojan valssi

    01949HD

    A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful couplet singer - the "king of couplets"....

    Orpopojan valssi
  • 1951
    Radio tekee murron

    Radio tekee murron (1951)

    Radio tekee murron

    6.71951HD

    Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coinc...

    Radio tekee murron
  • 1958
    Sven Tuuva the Hero

    Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)

    Sven Tuuva the Hero

    5.31958HD

    For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its her...

    Sven Tuuva the Hero
  • 1955
    Rakas lurjus

    Rakas lurjus (1955)

    Rakas lurjus

    1.51955HD

    It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in thi...

    Rakas lurjus
  • 1950
    Maija löytää sävelen

    Maija löytää sävelen (1950)

    Maija löytää sävelen

    61950HD

    Concertmaster Orasto and his pianist wife Elna hire Maija, who has been treated harshly by life, as their domestic helper. Erkki, the composer son of a noisy family of musicians, falls in love with Maija, but difficulties pile up in the way of the yo...

    Maija löytää sävelen
  • 1957
    Niskavuori taistelee

    Niskavuori taistelee (1957)

    Niskavuori taistelee

    5.21957HD

    The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies....

    Niskavuori taistelee
  • 1953
    The Milkmaid

    The Milkmaid (1953)

    The Milkmaid

    5.31953HD

    Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday...

    The Milkmaid
  • 1954
    Kunnioittaen

    Kunnioittaen (1954)

    Kunnioittaen

    01954HD

    Elmeri Vara from the General Stabilization Party, Selma Vuorinen from the Free Enlightenment Party, and Irja Solanen from the Independent Women's Party are competing for seats in parliament. When young Pertti and his classmates start a campaign with ...

    Kunnioittaen
  • 1960
    Inspector Palmu's Error

    Inspector Palmu's Error (1960)

    Inspector Palmu's Error

    7.21960HD

    A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate....

    Inspector Palmu's Error
  • 1951
    Lakeuksien lukko

    Lakeuksien lukko (1951)

    Lakeuksien lukko

    51951HD

    Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler, and even starts to annoy him by building a dam to defy the project to drain Lohikoski's lands. Durin...

    Lakeuksien lukko
  • 1958
    Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä

    Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä (1958)

    Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä

    4.81958HD

    Trade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-fa...

    Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
  • 1955
    Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä

    Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä (1955)

    Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä

    4.61955HD

    Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son toge...

    Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä
  • 1951
    Rovaniemen markkinoilla

    Rovaniemen markkinoilla (1951)

    Rovaniemen markkinoilla

    51951HD

    Based on a song by the same name. It was the Genre Popularizer for the Rillumarei film and live entertainment genre that drew from the musical couplet genre of light, cleverly written, often satirical songs. Many of these films were based on an exist...

    Rovaniemen markkinoilla
  • 1957
    Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina

    Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina (1957)

    Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina

    5.21957HD

    At Justiina's insistence, Pekka and Pätkä are looking for work again and end up starting a detective agency. The first assignment takes the duo on a cruise on Lake Saimaa. Traveling on the same ship are representative Johannes Kulo and his daughter M...

    Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
  • 1949
    Aaltoska orkaniseeraa

    Aaltoska orkaniseeraa (1949)

    Aaltoska orkaniseeraa

    61949HD

    Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league....

    Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
  • 1954
    Kasarmin tytär

    Kasarmin tytär (1954)

    Kasarmin tytär

    01954HD

    The engagement announcement of Irmeli, an orphan girl who grew up in the barracks, and Olavi, a musician serving in the military, upsets the girl's guardians and the director of the military home, who begin plotting to prevent what they consider an u...

    Kasarmin tytär
  • 1952
    Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?

    Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli? (1952)

    Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?

    3.81952HD

    St. Peter's announcement interrupts the Welcome to Morning Coffee radio program. He asks people for help because he does not know whether private detective Uljas Uriel Vaaksanpää has died or is still alive. The strange events are followed from the pe...

    Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
  • 1954
    Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää

    Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää (1954)

    Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää

    61954HD

    Overworked industrialist Daniel escapes the hustle and bustle of high society to his old workplace at the Akkakoski log floating site. Working under a pseudonym, he befriends Moterni-Jaska, the oldest member of the loggers' group. His daughter Elisab...

    Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
  • 1959
    Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina

    Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina (1959)

    Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina

    4.61959HD

    Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the me...

    Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
  • 1949
    Isäntä soittaa hanuria

    Isäntä soittaa hanuria (1949)

    Isäntä soittaa hanuria

    41949HD

    In the remote village of Hurula, the mistress of the house has forbidden her henpecked husband from enjoying himself and playing the accordion. The ceremonious host Ernesti courts the Hurulas' daughter Pirkko to be his wife. However, she falls in lov...

    Isäntä soittaa hanuria