Martti Kainulainen

Visa Mäkinen - My movie (2002)

Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telli ...

White Marble (1998)

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He che ...

The Last Wedding (1995)

Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with ...

Lyrics and Lace (1992)

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays on ...

Pirtua pirtua (1991)

A young man fights against bootleggers in his village during Prohibition. ...

Nuoruuteni savotat (1988)

Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic. ...

Maailman paras (1986)

Elämän vonkamies (1986)

Portrait of rural life in 1920s Northern Finland. The film follows the early life of a boy called Kalle and his family in the shores of river Iijoki. ...

The Unknown Soldier (1985)

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). ...

Kuoleman hellä kosketus (1982)

A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose. ...

Aidankaatajat (1982)

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter ...

Syöksykierre (1981)

Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and are disappointed by what they find. ...

Kätkäläinen (1980)

Onnellinen mies (1979)

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer ...

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi (1977)

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli. ...

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet (1977)

The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military. ...

The Manila Rope (1976)

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of ...

Lasisydän (1959)

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road. ...

Punainen viiva (1959)

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 shopping in the village, Topi hears about the upcoming parliamentary elections. His wife Riikka decides to fi ...

Vieras mies (1957)

A couple who have moved from the city manage a collapsing farm. The man Alfred is an alcoholic, therefore the responsible to solve the situation is his wife Katriina. Help is provided by the former owner Hermann. ...