Risto Jarva

Helsinki, Forever (2008)

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as ...

The Year of the Hare (1977)

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland ...

Loma (1976)

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort o ...

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei (1975)

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. T ...

One Man's War (1974)

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships. ...

When the Heavens Fall… (1972)

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

Kreivi (1971)

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the mo ...

Bensaa suonissa (1970)

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love. ...

Maaseudun tulevaisuus? (1970)

Kesäkapina (1970)

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the ...

Time of Roses (1969)

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Me ...

Frozen Foods (1969)

A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising. ...

Woman and Society (1968)

The Green Widow (1968)

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair. ...

Parempaan asumiseen (1968)

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's. ...

Computers Serve (1968)

The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968. The voice-over accentuates the highly topical promulgation set against the dangers of monotonous ...

A Worker's Diary (1967)

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements. ...

Town Is Our Future (1967)

With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films, it is a lively analysis of urban living and the functions of the city. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Tampere, the City of Joyful Summer (1964)

The film is the first commission for the budding production company Filminor Oy, commissioned by the City of Tampere. Emphasising closeness to nature, the film showcases Tampere as an attractive summer city. Antti Peippo's cinematography shifted a traditio ...

Kitka - a poem in living water (1963)

Yö vai päivä (1962)

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer night celebrations overwhelm the researchers. ...

Työtä ylioppilasteatterissa (1961)

9 runoa (1959)

An experimental short film by Risto Jarva. ...

Risto Jarva, My Colleague (1984)

Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films ...

Loma (1976)

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort o ...

One Man's War (1974)

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships. ...

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. ...

9 runoa (1959)

An experimental short film by Risto Jarva. ...