Leo Jokela Movies

Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the...

The story of the first elections in Finland

A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks...

Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous...

Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler,...

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

A 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...

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

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

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