The best Matti Ranin’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Matti Ranin’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 Matti Ranin.
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.
The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu
7.3/10
Ms. Alli Pelkonen's terrier finds a body from Tähtitorninmäki, that's thought to be a wino at first. But Inspector Palmu knows a little better. And yes, it was a murder. Tähdet kertovat, Komisario Palmu (1962) is directed by Matti Kassila, as were all of these movies. This is the third Inspector Palmu movie. Mika Waltari worked on the script, and after that he came up with the novel.
Hilma's Name Day
7.2/10
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Here, Beneath the North Star
7.5/10
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
Vodka, Mr. Palmu
5.9/10
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
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.
Kolmiapila
5.3/10
Gas, Inspector Palmu!
7.7/10
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but Inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrofi was asleep?
The Girl from Moon Bridge
6.8/10
A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.
Wild Generation
5.8/10
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.
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.
The Girl in the Barracks
5.2/10
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
Turkasen tenava!
6.3/10
On Deck
4.9/10
Young sailor Arvi (Matti Ranin) falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu (Raili Mäki) in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father
Ruusu ja kulkuri
5.9/10
Mr. Coolman from the Wild West
4.9/10
Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Anu and Mikko
5.3/10
Directed by Ville Salminen, the romantic drama Anu and Mikko (1956) is based on Kersti Bergroth's play of the same name. The film tells the story of an orphaned Anu (Marjatta Kallio) and carpenter Mikko (Sakari Jurkka) trying to make a living in a small Karelian village in the early 1930s.
