Pentti Irjala Movies

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and...

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The...

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

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...

Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where...

The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.

An idle work crew is ordered to go and heat up an abandoned house before it is demolished. A road sign pointing in the wrong direction leads them...

Director Emil Rantamo goes with his family to the country for the summer. The family's son Fritsu gets engaged to Tipuli Niemi. Sausage maker Niemi...

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

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of...