The best Tauno Palo’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Tauno Palo’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 Tauno Palo.
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 Logger's Bride
6/10
The Milkmaid
5.8/10
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
Aarne of Niskavuori
6.1/10
Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
The Log Drivers
5.3/10
A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.
Kolmiapila
5.3/10
Helmikuun manifesti
4.8/10
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Rosvo Roope
The Women of Niskavuori
6.5/10
The first Finnish talking picture(with English subtitles) to be released in the United States is a story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living. Tauno Palo marries Irja Lautia because his mother, Olga Tainio, tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive Sirkka Sari, a school teacher arrives in the village and causes complications when Palo falls in love with her.
Jääkärin morsian
5.9/10
Finnish film from 1931. The first version
Koskenkylän laulu
5.4/10
Jumalan tuomio
6.4/10
Vaivaisukon morsian
5.8/10
Ratkaisun päivät
6.5/10
Niskavuori taistelee
5.7/10
The Wheel of Chance
5.3/10
Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.
Härmästä poikia kymmenen
6.3/10
Based upon the popular folk song, the film tells the story of two men who want to test the new Sheriff, who has new policies to put in place.
Laitakaupungin laulu
6/10
Eyes in the Dark
5.5/10
A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
Eteenpäin - elämään
5.2/10
