The best Eeva-Kaarina Volanen’s movies

Directed by Hannu Leminen, Onnaiset (1954) is a romantic drama set in the early 20th century. The film is built around the music of Oskar Merikanto and is an independent sequel to the film Summer Night Waltz. Pianist Lauri Alango (Leif Wager) and his wife Annina (Eeva-Kaarina Volanen) 's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati (Maaria Eira) attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.

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 comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.

Dark Love (1957) is a drama directed by Edvin Laine, based on Väinö Linna's novel of the same name. Marjatta (Eeva-Kaarina Volanen) lives with her widowed father, Arttu Salmela (Edvin Laine), who works as a factory worker, in poor conditions in Tampere. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli Haantiehe (Jussi Jurkka), whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjata and her close circle

In the late 19th century, a bloodshed was made in Längelmäki, where two men killed a mail queue and robbed a bag of money. Based on actual events.

Finland late 1700's. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.

Based on short stories by early 20th century feminist writer Maria Jotuni, the film is a series of lively dialogue scenes between men and women, young and old, living in a small Finnish town. Most episodes evolve into humorous battles between the sexes. The film's central character is a young maid played by Maija Karhi.