Mauri Jaakkola Movies

The story of the first elections in Finland

The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen (Pöysti), who starts his military...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus...

Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast...

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other...

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...

Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over...

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he...

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...

A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.

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