The best Tapio Hämäläinen’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Tapio Hämäläinen’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 Tapio Hämäläinen.
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 Boys
7.2/10
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Juha
6.4/10
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him. First Finnish feature film ever shot in color. T.J. Särkkä's adaptation of Juhani Aho's classical story "Juha" which has been filmed countless of times by some of the greatest Finnish filmmakers - Mauritz Stiller, Nyrki Tapiovaara and later Aki Kaurismäki.
Takiaispallo
6/10
Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
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.
