Esko Salminen Movies

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is...

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day...

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a...

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

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

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström...

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...