Jörn Donner Movies

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt...

F*** Off! shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing country/welfare state Finland. It is...

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he...

About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.

What kind of man was Gustaf Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland? Author Jörn Donner answers this question.

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman the Finnish writer and director Jörn Donner shares his memories of his friend and...

Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate,...

A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.

Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military...

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

It is 1957. A young student is unhappy at school, play hooky frequently and devotes himself to his great interest in music. Together with his...

Jörn Donner’s entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance. Whilst others have painted one image or...

A short documentary where Helsinki in the springtime is displayed in her poetic ugliness.

"A testimony about her." Her being the actor and vocalist Monica Zetterlund. At 25 in the beginning of her career. Monica sings with a trio at a...

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

"Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman" is quite an interesting documentary which is basically a sequence of interviews with Ingmar Bergman where Bergman...