Birgitta Ulfsson

Haru, Island of the Solitary (1998)

In early 1970s, the graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä had seen enough of stative visual art and purchased a film camera from Japan. She filmed the games and chores of the artist couple in their beloved hideout, the island of Klovharun. ...

Mannen utan ansikte (1995)

A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In addition to himself, the desperate robber threatens to blow up the hostages if the police who left to follow t ...

Sunday's Children (1992)

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip. ...

The Serpent's Way (1986)

A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow with the abuser's kids. ...

1985 - Vad hände katten i råttans år? (1985)

In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film. ...

Angela's War (1984)

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the ...

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon (1983)

A biopic of the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky. ...

Onnentyttö (1983)

Pyhä perhe (1976)

Paavo Mäkinen's alcoholism is hard on the whole family. His wife Terttu falls into depression and is hospitalized. Their children Marja, Tapsa, and Sanna each show symptoms in their own way: leaving home, drinking, skipping school. Will Paavo manage to st ...

Vain neljä kertaa (1968)

Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three marriages, he soon becomes unsure whether marrying for the sake of the child was a wise decision after all. ...

Kertokaa se hänelle… (1961)

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 an adult, Mauno travels to Helsinki to search for Helena, a Karelian girl he rescued during the war, who is ...

Justus järjestää kaiken (1960)

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella. ...

Rintamalotta (1956)

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 situations during the fighting of the Continuation War. Irma is also concerned about Erik's loyalty. ...

Kolmiapila (1953)

A couple decides to adopt a child. At the orphanage, they hear three different stories about the children who have arrived there and their fates. ...