Pertti Sveholm

In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired first president, Ståhlberg. The Finnish people were divided in the aftermath of the civil war, and the political atmosphere was turbulent and tense. However, the kidnapping went wrong right from the start when the incompetent henchmen recruited for the job were forced to take the president's stubborn wife, Ester Ståhlberg, with them.

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.

Death Metal komedi filmi Heavy Trip. Yönetmenliğini Jukka Vidgren ve Juuso Laatio’nun üstlendiği filmde, Finlandiya’nın en kötü death metal grubu Impaled Rektum’un Norveç’te düzenlenen en büyük metal festivalinde sahne almak için çıktıkları eğlenceli ve komik yolculuk anlatılıyor. Impaled Rektum isimli amatör grup, şüpheli bir menajer tarafından Finlandiya’nın en acımasız grubu olarak keşfedilip Norveç’teki büyük bir Metal festivaline davet alır. Ancak karar vermek için çok az vakitleri vardır ve sonrasında sıradan günlük işlerinden kurtulup bir minibüse yüklenirler. Bu destansı yolculukta başlarına gelmedik kalmaz, mezar soymak, davulcu kaçırmak ve vikinglerle karşılaşmak, Finlandiya polisi ve Norveç ordusuyla karşı karşıya gelmek daha birçok şey ve de bolca death-metal.

Banliyönün de aynı isimle anıldığı Vuosaari, bugünün Finlandiyası'ndan kesitler sunan bir yer. Vuosaari metrolinenin son durağı, yolculuğun başlangıç ve bitiş yeri. Filmin iç içe geçen hikayeleri aileler, bireyler, çocuklar ve yetişkinler hakkında bize bilgi veriyor. Bu insanların hepsi sevilmeye ve etkilenilmeye muhtaçtırlar...

Bir adam kendisine yeni bir hayat kurmak için Helsinki'ye gelir. Amacı yeni bir iş bulmaktır. Fakat ölesiye dayak yedikten sonra tüm hafızasını kaybeder.. Soğukkanlılığını korumaya çalışarak, ayakta durmaya çalışır. Kendisine yardımcı olmak isteyen çok fazla gönüllü çıkmaz. İş ve işçi bulma kurumundan da herhangi bir sonuç çıkmayınca, Kurtuluş Ordusu'na yardımcı olmaya başlar. Ordunun bandosu yeni bir uğraşın kapısını aralayacaktır. Fakat hatırlayamadığı geçmişi, kendisine pusu kurmuş beklemektedir!. Aki Kaurismäki'nin Finlandiya üçlemesinin ikinci ayağı olan yapım, 2002 yılının en başarılı filmlerinden biri oldu. Cannes'da Jüri Büyük Ödülü'nü kazanmasının ardından gösterildiği tüm festivallerde olağanüstü bir heyecanla karşılandı...

Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki

Acımasız kader, talihsiz insanlar ve etrafta kol gezen kötülük üzerine vurucu bir film... Buz Diyarı pek çok insanın kaderinin kesiştiği duygu yüklü bir dram. Filmde yaşanan olaylar günümüzde geçer. Karakterleri bir araya getiren olaylar zinciri, sahte bir 500 Euro ile başlar. Filmin ana temasını cesaret, bağışlayıcı olmanın ve hayatta kalma mücadelesi vermenin zorluğu oluşturuyor. Buz Diyarı Şubat 2005'te 28. Göteborg Film Festivali'nde Kuzey Filmleri Yarışması kategorisinde toplam dört ödül alarak festivalin en başarılı filmi olmuştur. Buz Diyarı duygusal yoğunluğu, temposu ve günümüz Finlandiya'sının gerçekçi tasviriyle kaçırılmaması gereken bir film. Film dramatik ve trajik olayların yanı sıra aksiyonu, sıcaklığı ve kara mizah unsurunu başarıyla bir arada sunuyor.

Bir babanın bir sürü oğlu olabilir ama bir oğulun tek babası vardır. Mika Kaurismäki´nin en başarılı filmi ya da Kaurismäki filmlerinin şimdilik en başarılısı, birbirinden uzak düşen baba ile oğulun izini süren, hem dokunaklı hem de komedi unsurları barındıran bir yol filmi. Savurgan baba, 35 yıl önce terk ettiği oğlunu görmek için döner ve baba-oğul, Finlandiya´yı Helsinki´den kuzeye Lapland´a, çalıntı bir arabayla katederken birbirini tanıma fırsatı bulur. Ülkenin önde gelen film ve müzik ikonlarından Vesa-Matti Loiri ve Samuli Edelmann´ın rol aldığı film, hayat gibi kestirilemez bir aile hikâyesi.

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

While on a shopping trip, Grump smells Saimi, a woman who smells just right and throws the whole man in a state of confusion. The Grump would not have believed that his chest could still feel like a young boy's. The Grump has to admit that he enjoys Saimi’s company. The words, looks, and touch of another awaken long-forgotten feelings. The Grump’s sons are incredulous and downright jealous of their father, and they don’t want to trust Saimi’s sincerity… could she be after the inheritance? Family meetings, misunderstandings, moonlight swims, and sleepless nights. Indeed, Cupid's arrow can pierce even an old man's flannel shirt.

The story recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

A Finnish drama about the short term of Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.

Ambulans çalışanı yakışıklı ve bekar Ari (Mikko NOUSIAINEN) gündüzlerini işte akşamlarını ise barlarda kız tavlayarak geçirmektedir. Her gece başka bir kadınla beraber olup kafasına hiçbir şeyi takmayan sorumsuz Ari, bir gün bir kızla tanışır ve hayatının aşkını bulduğunu düşünmeye başlar. Ancak bir süre sonra bu ilişki de onu boğmaya ve en yakın arkadaşları ile sevgilisini aldatmasına sebep olacaktır. İnişli Çıkışlı fırtınalı ilişkileri, beraber katılacakları yakın arkadaşları bir çiftin düğününde doruğa çıkarak her şeyi tam bir kaosa sürükleyecektir.

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.

Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.

The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative.

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.

Yaşadığı trajik kayıplar sadece birkaç ay sonra dedektik Sofia Karppi, Helsinki'deki bir inşaat şirketiyle bağlantıları olan bir kadının öldürülmesini araştırır.

Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores how it is possible that 852 people lost their lives and no one is held accountable.

The series follows Inspector Sakari Koskinen and his team in the Violent Crimes Unit as they try to solve murders in a Finnish lakeside city of Tampere.

Sininen enkeli vividly depicts the colorful upswing of the 1980s in Helsinki, where money grows on trees, convertibles guarantee the thrill of speed and the solarium is the new sun. Marko Hyyryläinen, who hides his country background, arrives in the city and wants his share of money and love.

Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series.

Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

When the employment office is haunted, performance targets troubles and indoor mold threatens, service manager Anneli Tiainen uses peculiar means in the face of an impossible situation.

Matti is on a career path in the traditional and large Benson law firm, where his wife Eeva Benson is also a partner. Matti is nominated to take over the management of the family business and everything has been set for the Crown Prince to rise to power when a tragedy in the family pushes Matti to make a radical decision and move to a smaller law firm. He takes only one case with him and it soon starts to unfold into a criminal case, that threatens not only the Benson law firm but the common future of Matti and Eeva.

The 2001 World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, lead to the biggest scandal in Finnish sporting history.