Markku Peltola

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.

Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor, Dr. Anderson assumed the persona of “the ...

Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a man fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets ...

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has ...

On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.

Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness… Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there ...

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was ...

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely ...

A farmer’s wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together ...

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström ...

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an ...

A documentary drama about Finnish volunteers who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.