Yrjö Tähtelä Movies

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and...

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen...

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...

Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and...

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

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Rudolf Räpylä is ordered to organize a big show night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a record company.

A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.

A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.

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

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league....

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling...

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The...

A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet...