Esko Salminen Movies

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

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

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

Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard...

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

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...

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

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

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs....

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

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

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

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

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...

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

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

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...