Esko Salminen Movies

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and...

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

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

The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the...

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

Set in the year 1742 a fisherman's film about a boy who ends leprosy on the island.