Risto Salmi

Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk (2016)

Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here. ...

Big Game (2014)

Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the ...

Garbage Prince (2011)

Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a ...

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. ...

Under the North Star (2009)

Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War. ...

Legend of the Lake Bodom (2006)

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bo ...

The Leaning Tower (2006)

A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments. ...

Man Exposed (2006)

A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku. ...

Jackpot (2006)

Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting. ...

For the Living and the Dead (2005)

An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remai ...

Dog Nail Clipper (2004)

Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spit ...

Pearls and Pigs (2003)

When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little g ...

A Long Hot Summer (1999)

The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s. ...

The Swan and the Wanderer (1999)

The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on ...

Rikos & rakkaus (1999)

In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish's housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that the man is a petty criminal. Under the leadership of hard-hitting Inspector Rautapää, the city's police force will ...

The Tough Ones (1999)

The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, ...

Poliisin poika (1998)

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver. ...

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners (1997)

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and "impossible" stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun. ...

Jäänmurtaja (1997)

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a ...

Lahja (1997)

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband. ...

Pekko ja poika (1994)

A child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from Tyräaho to Helsinki with Pekko. In the capital, the friends are helped by Pipsa, Pekko's crush, who joins them on a runaway trip. The press and the people of Tyrà ...

Kissa ja Varjo (1993)

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, th ...

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 ...

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. ...

Dolly and Her Lover (1990)

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring. ...

Irti Maasta (1989)

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

Kolme yötä (1989)

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 ...

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). ...

The Wrestler (1985)

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

Viimeinen keikka (1984)

After the death of an old bandmate, the surviving musicians head to the funeral. ...

Minä, siili ja trumpetti (1983)

The story of Ailu's summer, which he spends on an island with his trumpet and hedgehog for company while his father is at work. His ingenuity is put to the test when lonely Ailu tries to find things to do and entertain himself. ...

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. ...

Tie (1981)

A drama based on the lives of children and parents in a small farming family. Based on Esko Raennon's novel Tie. ...

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. ...