Pentti Irjala Movies

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

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 t...

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays...

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new...

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business t...

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.

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 mal...

Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler,...

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...

The story of the first elections in Finland

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number...

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affectio...

Log driver brothers and crooks compete in trying to find loot of an old bank robbery in a supposedly haunted inn.