Paavo Pentikäinen Movies

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the...

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...

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.

Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime...

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...

A finnish TV-movie by Jukka Sipilä

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...

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

Construction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped...

Laila and Lasse are two teenagers dreaming about careers as singers. Lasse's brother Rami dreams about motorbike racing and dates a pretty blond...

Simo Kämäräinen, a widowed cottage owner, and his chairman leave with marriage intentions for Juva. A play based on Maiju Lassila's...