Movies: Aku Peltonen

After being harassed at the office by her boss, Eila gets sacked and tries to find a new job. After difficulties, she eventually begins to work as a model to a sculptor....

A small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge....

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry boxing champion and garage owner Klasu Tullari, son of Vihtori's friend Tomi, and their interactions wi...

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Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first love Jari arrives to the scene....

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

A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman....

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Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women....

Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger....

A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute of a man and she longs for the man she truly loves....

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears....

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Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's in conflict with her husband and with the church....

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An adaptation of Frans Eemil Sillanpää's novel of the same title. Only a fragment of this film survives....

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Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging....

Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war....