Movies: Risto Jarva

  • 1977
    The Year of the Hare

    The Year of the Hare (1977)

    The Year of the Hare

    7.11977HD

    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 L...

    The Year of the Hare
  • 1975
    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei (1975)

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

    5.71975HD

    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 hims...

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei
  • 1971
    Kreivi

    Kreivi (1971)

    Kreivi

    4.11971HD

    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. ...

    Kreivi
  • 1970
    Bensaa suonissa

    Bensaa suonissa (1970)

    Bensaa suonissa

    4.81970HD

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

    Bensaa suonissa
  • 1967
    A Worker's Diary

    A Worker's Diary (1967)

    A Worker's Diary

    5.91967HD

    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....

    A Worker's Diary
  • 1964
    X-Paroni

    X-Paroni (1964)

    X-Paroni

    3.71964HD

    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, s...

    X-Paroni
  • 1974
    One Man's War

    One Man's War (1974)

    One Man's War

    6.81974HD

    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....

    One Man's War
  • 1968
    The Green Widow

    The Green Widow (1968)

    The Green Widow

    3.51968HD

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

    The Green Widow
  • 1972
    When the Heavens Fall…

    When the Heavens Fall… (1972)

    When the Heavens Fall…

    6.11972HD

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

    When the Heavens Fall…
  • 1965
    Onnenpeli

    Onnenpeli (1965)

    Onnenpeli

    5.11965HD

    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....

    Onnenpeli
  • 1969
    Time of Roses

    Time of Roses (1969)

    Time of Roses

    4.81969HD

    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 came...

    Time of Roses
  • 1970
    Kesäkapina

    Kesäkapina (1970)

    Kesäkapina

    5.41970HD

    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...

    Kesäkapina
  • 1976
    Loma

    Loma (1976)

    Loma

    5.91976HD

    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 ...

    Loma
  • 1968
    Parempaan asumiseen

    Parempaan asumiseen (1968)

    Parempaan asumiseen

    01968HD

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

    Parempaan asumiseen
  • 2008
    Helsinki, Forever

    Helsinki, Forever (2008)

    Helsinki, Forever

    6.82008HD

    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 Helsi...

    Helsinki, Forever
  • 1968
    Computers Serve

    Computers Serve (1968)

    Computers Serve

    61968HD

    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 mono...

    Computers Serve
  • 1963
    Kitka - a poem in living water

    Kitka - a poem in living water (1963)

    Kitka - a poem in living water

    41963HD

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    Kitka - a poem in living water
  • 1962
    Yö vai päivä

    Yö vai päivä (1962)

    Yö vai päivä

    51962HD

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    Yö vai päivä
  • 1970
    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

    Maaseudun tulevaisuus? (1970)

    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

    01970HD

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    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
  • 1969
    Frozen Foods

    Frozen Foods (1969)

    Frozen Foods

    71969HD

    A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising....

    Frozen Foods