Anneli Sauli

The Northern Star (2024)

Documentary film about a woman for whom the sex symbol stamp was a life-long curse - and a gift. A film in which the life story of one woman shows the social atmosphere as the decades change - values and prejudices at their most exposed. A film about Annel ...

Siblings (2023)

Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own lives, surging betwee ...

Heartbeats (2010)

"Encounter". Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust. ...

Stormheart (2008)

The father of a Finnish family brings home a cute puppy, Stormheart. No one in the family knows anything about the dog. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart unravels and the dog's new owners learn more about him. They find out that Stormheart's pare ...

Ganes (2007)

Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After le ...

The Man Without a Past (2002)

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming ...

Days of Grace (1999)

A fisherman's son accidentally ends up in a leper colony in 1742. ...

Petos (1988)

The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist. ...

Extradition of the Balts (1970)

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for figh ...

Äl' yli päästä perhanaa (1968)

In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with three possible films, which they also act in themselves. The topics chosen, in the spirit of Finnish nation ...

Skin, Skin (1966)

A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki. ...

Onnenpeli (1965)

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena. ...

The Racetrack Murders (1964)

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event. ...

X-Paroni (1964)

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeed ...

Raportti eli balladi laivatytöistä (1964)

A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko. ...

The Mysterious Magician (1964)

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. Howe ...

Liebeshändel in Chioggia (1964)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962)

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies. ...

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend. ...

Dead Eyes of London (1961)

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money. ...

Weit ist der Weg (1960)

Lumisten metsien tyttö (1960)

Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki. ...

Salem Aleikum (1959)

Musician Peter Karmann, whose main profession is teaching Asian languages, goes on a grand tour of Africa with a ballet troupe. Unfortunately, the well-behaved Peter looks very much like the notorious smuggling baron Jack Castillo. As soon as he arrives in ...

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen (1959)

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallo ...

Moonwolf (1959)

Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. ...

The Restless Night (1958)

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means ...

Autuas eversti (1958)

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the runaway lovers. In the end, the funeral turns into a we ...

Kahden ladun poikki (1958)

Young Anna marries Tuomas, an old widower. Tuomas reluctantly sells his forest to the boss of Ruukki and is forced to take in a group of loggers, among whom the handsome womanizer Humu begins to seduce the young mistress of the house. ...

Miriam (1957)

After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove. ...

Ingen morgondag (1957)

It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aal ...

1918 (1957)

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life. ...

Risti ja liekki (1957)

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial. ...

Jokin ihmisessä (1956)

Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second W ...

Kaunis Kaarina (1955)

Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina. ...

Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun (1955)

A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm. ...

Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää (1954)

Overworked industrialist Daniel escapes the hustle and bustle of high society to his old workplace at the Akkakoski log floating site. Working under a pseudonym, he befriends Moterni-Jaska, the oldest member of the loggers' group. His daughter Elisabeth fo ...

Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä (1954)

Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait. ...

Minä soitan sinulle illalla (1954)

Factory manager Risto Järviö is under his mother's thumb. When his mother forbids him from dancing with factory girl Seija Vaara, Seija decides to make anonymous phone calls to Risto to annoy his controlling mother. Risto falls in love with the voice on ...

The Milkmaid (1953)

Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. ...

Me tulemme taas (1953)

The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land. ...