Aku Peltonen Movies

Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first...

Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's...

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

The local doctor Aarno works with his nurse wife Asta. After the death of their child, the spouses have distanced themselves from each other. The man...

A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman.

Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war.

Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film...

An adaptation of Frans Eemil Sillanpää's novel of the same title. Only a fragment of this film survives.

Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.

A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute...

After being harassed at the office by her boss, Eila gets sacked and tries to find a new job. After difficulties, she eventually begins to work as a...

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other...

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry...