The best Eino Kaipainen’s movies
Today we present the best Eino Kaipainen’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eino Kaipainen’s movies.
The Unknown Soldier
8/10
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.
Heta from Niskavuori
6.8/10
Juha
6.4/10
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him. First Finnish feature film ever shot in color. T.J. Särkkä's adaptation of Juhani Aho's classical story "Juha" which has been filmed countless of times by some of the greatest Finnish filmmakers - Mauritz Stiller, Nyrki Tapiovaara and later Aki Kaurismäki.
Kenraalin morsian
3.9/10
Laitakaupungin laulu
6/10
Vaarallista vapautta
5.2/10
Nurse Sinikka (Pirkko Peltonen) wants to help a prisoner (Toivo Lehkonen) who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé (Ville-Veikko Salminen) plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother (Irma Seikkula). Ruth (Maija Karhi), the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother (Antti Litja), happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
Lapatossu
5.4/10
A Finnish comedy film from 1937. The first in the "Lapatossu" trilogy.
Helmikuun manifesti
4.8/10
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Näkemiin Helena
5.5/10
Pinsiön parooni
6.3/10
Halveksittu
5.4/10
Tanssi yli hautojen
5/10
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Vaivaisukon morsian
5.8/10
Rakkaus kahleissa
4.8/10
Syyllisiäkö?
5.2/10
Rantasuon raatajat
5.1/10
Father's New and Ex
6.3/10
An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.
Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
5.6/10
Akseli and Elina
6.8/10
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Tyttö astuu elämään
6.2/10
