The best Mikko Niskanen’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mikko Niskanen’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 Mikko Niskanen.
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.
Eight Deadly Shots
8.3/10
Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story,
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
5.4/10
Herra sotaministeri
5.5/10
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
5.3/10
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
6.4/10
1955 Finnish drama.
Autumn Is to Change It All
5.6/10
A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.
The Horse Rebellion
6.8/10
Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises the farmers in open rebellion against the authorities.
