Risto Jarva Movies

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter...

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl...

A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising.

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A...

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter...

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight...

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer...

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both...

Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films

The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as...

An experimental short film by Risto Jarva.

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...