Esko Salminen Movies

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...

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

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

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...

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

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

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...

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

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...

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

Aarne Tarkas was a wunderkind of Finnish cinema, a director and screenwriter, a genius who possessed not only an infinite supply of ideas but also a...