Elvi Saarnio Movies

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the...

Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone....

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry...

A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and...

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

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

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...