Esko Salminen Movies

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes...

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

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

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

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor,...

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her...

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a...

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and...

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...

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...