Yrjö Tähtelä Movies

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

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...

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

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

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at...

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The...

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen...

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During World War II, Laila rescues a crashed German fighter pilot,...

A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league....

Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.

Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him...

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced...

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.