Valentin Vaala Movies

Blind since birth, Antreas Tuurio earns a meager living selling brushes at the Market Square. Despite his disability, he is a cheerful and optimistic...

A commissioned film about wintertime seafaring in Finland

Kilian Melker, heir to a trading house, becomes head of a large enterprise on which the entire future of the financially troubled company depends. He...

Sock manufacturer August Lampaanpää finds himself in financial difficulties due to the upkeep of his girlfriend Kyllikki Mattler, appeasing...

Finnish documentary film.

Katri Vesa, a young woman from Helsinki, has fallen in love with Erkki Kovalinna, an ambitious young official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and...

Arvo Raitamo, a surgeon from Helsinki, is focused on his career. At home, his wife, who suffers from loneliness with their young son, is kept company...

Documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

Continuation War Review 10/41 Cannon operations. Pioneer repair work. Railway cannons. Hägglund's visit to Paalu. Views of the Aunus village,...

War documentary from the Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

Description of the film making, samples of the production of two long films of Finland-Film in summer 1937. Both are Valentin Vaala's guitars from...

Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia

A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and...

The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the...

The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the...

Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. She lies that she has recently...

Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie....

A traditional misunderstanding story with an unfounded suspicion of jealousy at the beginning. Childhood friends Kati Jorma and Jalmari Karvi do not...