Erkki Pajala

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

The problems faced by a pensioner living on a low income in Finland in the late 1960s.

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic.

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.

Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.