Yrjö Tähtelä Movies

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into...

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and...

Rudolf Räpylä is ordered to organize a big show night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a record company.

A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.

Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The came...

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league. Reis...

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu...

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.

Ritva Hakala the single parent of a little boy is working in the office. While Ritva talks lightly about men and her future plans with other women at...

An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola),born in 1868. Lassila'...

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately...

Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and...

A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet Väinö Ki...

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.