The best Leo Riuttu’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Leo Riuttu’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 Leo Riuttu.
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.
Close to sin
5.8/10
A drama about the love and subsequent life story of agronom Elmer Oras and Margi Kaski and their son. The story has its origins just before the Winter War. After a brief encounter, both fell in love. As a result of this love affair, Margit gets pregnant Soon the war breaks out and Elmer has to go the front. As the war goes on, Elmer does not return from a patrol mission behind the enemy lines. After the war times are hard for Margit and his fatherless son.
The Apple Falls
6.8/10
Miriam
5.9/10
After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
Leena
4.8/10
Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen together and press thinks they are engaged.
Song of Warsaw
6.3/10
A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Professor Masa
6.5/10
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Herra sotaministeri
5.5/10
Äidittömät
4.2/10
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.
Inspector Palmu's Error
7.8/10
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
The Foreman at Siltala
5.4/10
The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the fact that the estate of Siltala is swimming in debt. And the new steward isn't quite what he seems to be.
Short by a million
5.6/10
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
I, a Father!
5.3/10
Ruusu ja kulkuri
5.9/10
Siren of the North
5/10
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.
