Paavo Jännes Movies

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent...

Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen...

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von...

A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities...

In 17th century Finland young Arvid is forced to marry Brita but their ways soon part when their respective fathers move to different places. Years...

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys...

The first Finnish full-length feature film and the first film adaptation of Minna Canth’s play of the same name. Orphaned Sylvi is married to...

Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife...

Love triangle near roaring rapids. Two sisters fight for the attention of a handsome forester.

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

A romantic story about a rich girl, who is not used to household work, charms many men while working in the "Haukka" manor. The reason for this...

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his...

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

A story of a stunning ladies man engineer Rainer Leimu, whose life is weighed down by a broken family background. Rainer marries his employer's...

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery...

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person –...