Esko Salminen Movies

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

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

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes...

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

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

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

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his...

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

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

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

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a...

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is...

Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day...