Elvi Saarnio Movies

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and...

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the...

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

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...

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

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

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride...

A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.

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

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a...

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

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

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...