Olli Soinio

Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone (2023)

Julius, who devours comic books and vampire stories, has a lively imagination. Julius meets Arnold Cautious, who lives in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town and introduces himself as a degenerated, strawberry juice-drinking vampire. Julius and Cau ...

The Singer (2018)

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful ...

A Patriotic Man (2013)

Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team. ...

Body of Water (2011)

Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concern ...

Letters to Angel (2011)

Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja has been fighting in Afghanistan; 21 years later he returns to Estonia to his father's funeral. He has converted to Islam and his only connection to his native land is the sound of his daughter Angel's crying that he heard a long ti ...

The Interrogation (2009)

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics. ...

Mosku: The Last of His Kind (2003)

A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is als ...

Before the Flood: The Last Couple in Vuotos (2000)

"If you wish to stay together this long don't ever forget to say good night, my darling, and good morning, dear." Veikko and Impi Schroderus (78) built a house in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland in the beginning of 1950's. At the time, a state-owned hydroel ...

Punaiset esiliinat (1997)

Paratiisin lapset (1994)

Eeva, the strong-willed and ambitious businesswoman, dreams to build a spa called Paradiso Baltica. ...

Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia (1991)

Trollforest is in grave danger, so Rölli the Troll must unite with a Forest Fairy to save their home. ...

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers (1991)

A sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buri ...

Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut (1990)

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance. ...

Friends, Comrades (1990)

The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two. In fact, everywhere he goes, he meets prospective customers on all sides of the confli ...

Porttikielto taivaaseen (1990)

High-class prostitute Bella works for hotel manager TT with Sara, Lulu and Cindy. However, Bella misses the ordinary life and love of her youth Timo, who is a hockey player on the team owned by TT. ...

Alone (1990)

A documentary-like film about Jussi Parviainen's divorce. ...

Paradise America (1990)

Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida. ...

Legenda - Pieni ihmetarina valtatien varrelta (1989)

A small gas station is held in the grip of a sinister trio of men until a rugged stranger, acting as the protector of truckers, appears on the scene. He puts the villains in order. ...

Insiders (1989)

An afternoon newspaper reporter's tape recorder picks up sensitive information while he is working on a story about so-called yuppie culture. The picture shows the symbols of yuppie life, from muscle boats and convertibles to Mobira Cityman 900 mobile phon ...

The Moonlight Sonata (1988)

A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of t ...

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. ...

Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri (1987)

A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal. ...

The Snow Queen (1986)

A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu. ...

V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä (1986)

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from. ...

The Undressing (1986)

Minister Korkolainen happens to bump into his ex-girlfriend from years ago. They end up spending the night together, discussing the past and politics. ...

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). ...

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 ...

Sista leken (1984)

In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summe ...

Palava enkeli (1984)

A newly graduated nurse Tuulikki starts a job in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital. Her innocence is being challenged by both her colleagues and patients. A new patient Katariina has a fire burning deep inside of her. ...

Koomikko (1983)

Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his i ...

Iso vaalee (1983)

Young hockey player Illu spends his summer in local restaurants, just like the stunning blonde Salme, with whom he and every man in town is in love. ...

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. ...

Yö meren rannalla (1981)

Middle-aged municipal architect Mikko is frustrated with his job and his marriage, so for years he has directed his energy into renovating a turn-of-the-century wooden villa on the seaside. One beautiful summer evening Mikko and his wife Liisa invite old f ...

Flame Top (1980)

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult ...

Täältä tullaan, elämä! (1980)

In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drun ...

Natalia (1979)

Sammeli from Näljängä and Einari from Haataja, who were hunting bears, encounter Natalia, a cow that has crossed the eastern border. In the name of friendship between neighboring countries, Natalia is asked to return to the Soviet Union. ...

Ihmemies (1979)

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme. ...

I Have a Tiger (1979)

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about everything. Other people in the building have their own secrets too. After a lot of those secrets are uncovere ...

Piilopirtti (1978)

Two middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month. ...

Rakastunut rampa (1975)

Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero. ...

Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975)

Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uun ...

Jouluksi kotiin (1975)

Construction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped rental apartment and moving to a house of their own. Urho decides to build one from scratch, starting from h ...

Tales of Transvestia (1975)

Racy monster movie parody. ...

Herra Huu – jestapa jepulis penikat sipuliks (1973)

Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical. ...

Pilvilinna (1970)

Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider ...

The Dinosaur (2021)

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen's eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg's art and ...

Hemåt i natten (1977)

Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a man in a fight, he flees back across the border to Finland and begins to pick up the pieces of his life, bu ...

Tales of Transvestia (1975)

Racy monster movie parody. ...

Finnish Frustrations (1969)

Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone. ...