The best Jussi Jurkka’s movies

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.

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

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. ..And Helena Plays (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Helena and Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Jari Junkker (Irma Seikkula, Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes her girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen) to marry him, but the world events come between. When his son is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.

A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. The office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.

After returning home from being a prisoner of war, Captain Viktor Aaltona (Jussi Jurkka) gets a job from his friend, Rolf Bergas (Tauno Palo) with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid (Elina Pohjanpää).

Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.