The best Elvi Saarnio’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Elvi Saarnio’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Elvi Saarnio.
According to the Law
5.8/10
In a drama dating back to the 1880s, Maria Toikka (Eila Peitsalo) is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville (Matti Oravisto) is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman (Fritz-Hugo Backman) begins to approach Mary, offering her money in return for services.
Aidankaatajat
5.6/10
Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter
Nuori mylläri
5.7/10
Flame Top
6.4/10
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.
Näkemiin Helena
5.6/10
The Millionaire Recruit
4/10
A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.
Lyrics and Lace
5.1/10
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.
Vain kaksi tuntia
5.9/10
Vääpelin kauhu
4.8/10
Poor Maria!
5.4/10
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
6.4/10
1955 Finnish drama.
Putkinotko
6.3/10
A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
Victor and Klara
5.2/10
The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry boxing champion and garage owner Klasu Tullari, son of Vihtori's friend Tomi, and their interactions with daughter Vappu and her fiancé, Peter von Schaslick, a mechanic in Klasu's garage, under the nose of the threatening and suspicious Klaara, with lazy son Nisse acting as a rather sardonic Greek chorus. Teuvo Tulio's only comedy.
The Women of Niskavuori
5.8/10
Remake of the 1938 film also by Vaala is a story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.
Holy Jumpin' Jimminy! Said Mr. Who
6.7/10
Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.
