Mauri Jaakkola Movies

Mauno, an orphan boy, moves from the countryside to Tampere to live with his foster parents, Iida and Eero, who support him in his music studies. As...

Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious...

A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.

Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's...

The story of the first elections in Finland. Farmer Topi Romppainen lives a modest life with his family in Kainuu in the early 20th century. While...

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn...

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he...

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...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...

A man sets out to prove his right against a District Court in a small town. The locals are not willing to accept anything but their own truth of the...

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

A widower takes care of his three children who are trying to find him a new wife.

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...

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast...