Movies: Gösta Salminen

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni....

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles....

A story about vagabond named Paul and his journeys in the countryside. He is a real charmer and many women will fall in his lap....

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

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The story of the first elections in Finland...

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting....

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

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decli...

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"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he knows....

A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm...

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childminder makes the grieving man smile again, and Artu's little sister Päivi in turn delights the entire J...

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army....

Log driver brothers and crooks compete in trying to find loot of an old bank robbery in a supposedly haunted inn....

A film about the destiny of cashier disappointed in love....

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life....

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955....

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

Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father....