The best Emma Väänänen’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Emma Väänänen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Emma Väänänen.
The Transfigured Heart
4.8/10
1943 Finnish war film. The hard times are won with help of God, home, and fatherland
Näkemiin Helena
5.6/10
Girl of the Week
6/10
The Apple Falls
6.8/10
Koskenkylän laulu
5.4/10
Heta from Niskavuori
6.8/10
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
5.5/10
"From rooster to rooster" - About a farm boy who leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
5.6/10
"After the Fall" - Schoolboy Klaus Toivola is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
People of the Summer Night
6.7/10
A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. Set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
Miehen kunnia
6/10
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.
Suomisen perhe
5.3/10
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
The Golden Candelabra
5.4/10
Two men steal a precious candelabra at a mansion they accidentally burn down. Two years later, one of the thieves is a wealthy property owner. But he is tormented by his memories and debt.
Gabriel, Come Back
6.8/10
A handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then taking their money.
Lovisa, the Young Mistress of Niskavuori
7/10
The start of the famous Finnish film series. Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women.
Four Women
5.9/10
The drama Four Women (1942), directed by lmari Unho and written by Serpi or Seere Salminen, is based on Serpi's play of the same name. The events of the film adaptation take place in the years 1914-1938.
A Hired Fiance
6.4/10
A romantic comedy about Meeri who is going through a divorce. She is hiding the relationship with a boxer. After seeing an advertisement in a magazine, she then hires a cavalier from and agency to escort her home from an upper-class party.
Riihalan valtias
6.5/10
Maaret, the Mountain Maid
5.2/10
Me and My Husband's Fiancée
5.5/10
Finnish comedy from the 50's
