Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Director · 1934 – 2018 · Simpele, Finland
Jaakko Juhani Pakkasvirta (28 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 films between 1958 and 2000. His 1975 film Home for Christmas was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1978 film Poet and Muse was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
Movies16
Movie5.1DramaComedyJussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.
Onnenpeli
1965 · 11 votes
Movie4.7DramaSini is waiting for her husband to return from a trip and starts thinking about her past relationship with Jaska. She invites him to a party, where old feelings resurface. Afterwards, they go to an island they used to visit and confront their memories and the past of their relationship
Meren juhlat
1963 · 6 votes
Movie4.7ComedyBaron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
X-Paroni
1964 · 10 votes
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Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
1970 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaThe story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
Valkoinen kääpiö
1986 · 4 votes
Movie6.0AdventureWarIn the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.
Hopeaa rajan takaa
1963 · 10 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceSemi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Movie7.0DocumentaryWith its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films, it is a lively analysis of urban living and the functions of the city.
Movie4.5ComedyA military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.
Sotapojan heilat
1958 · 2 votes
Movie5.1DramaYoung photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
Kesäkapina
1970 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaTells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.
Movie5.0ComedyA girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
1956 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DramaBased on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.
Linna
1986 · 6 votes
Movie5.7ComedyPekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
1958 · 10 votes
Movie4.0ComedyTwo competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Iloinen Linnanmäki
1960 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaOffice clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two children. A two-week drinking spree gets him fired, and a new job is not easy to find because of his reputation. He goes to a rehab centre in the countryside for a couple of weeks, but with no permanent result. Meanwhile, his wife has to get a job and is employed by her old sweetheart, now a recently divorced successful businessman.
Mies tältä tähdeltä
1958 · 8 votes