Eeva-Maija Haukinen

MUUTOS (2022)

Star Boys (2017)

Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland. ...

Learned by Heart (2007)

Marjut Rimminen's and Päivi Takala's animated film sheds light on childhood in post-war Finland. In it, an animated and documentary film combined with a rich sound expression create a multifaceted story. ...

The Rose of the Rascal (2001)

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer. ...

Lakeuden kutsu (2000)

Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finla ...

Little Sister (1999)

Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, s ...

Fire-Eater (1998)

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection o ...

Gracious Curves (1997)

A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, pr ...

Virtaset ja Kekkonen (1993)

Movie about family called Virtanen in Finland under regime of Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who ruled the country over 25 years. ...

Irti Maasta (1989)

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it. ...

The Wedding Waltz (1988)

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repair ...

Lumikit (1986)

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with both tears and laughter. ...

The Wrestler (1985)

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own. ...

Da Capo (1985)

Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was happenin ...

Pulakapina (1977)

Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises the farmers in open rebellion against the authorities. ...

Trust (1976)

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence. ...

When the Heavens Fall… (1972)

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine. ...

Taksikuski (1969)

An existential road movie based on Veijo Meri's novel Peiliin piirretty nainen (The Woman in the Mirror, 1963), following the life of a taxi driver from one evening to the next morning. ...