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Influenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of destruction....
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After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house....
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An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....
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 life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the...
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....
When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone. Marja ends up with an illegal abortion when there are only bad options ahead....
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The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night, both have to confront their past....