Arvo Lehesmaa Movies

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

St. Peter's announcement interrupts the Welcome to Morning Coffee radio program. He asks people for help because he does not know whether private...

The self-assured manager Julius Särkelä maintains strict discipline in his office and at home, which is experienced by his daughter Saara...

A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters....

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery...

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's...

Eemeli leaves the countryside for Helsinki to obtain tax money for the bailiff who is pursuing him. In the capital, he becomes the assistant driver...

Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.

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

Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen...

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

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.

The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the...

Captain Kaarnoja finds himself caught up in intrigues and a dispute between the noblewoman Elisabeth and her cousin, Captain Gyllenskiöld....

A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.

Concertmaster Orasto and his pianist wife Elna hire Maija, who has been treated harshly by life, as their domestic helper. Erkki, the composer son of...

A successful doctor moves back to her home village and notices severe flaws in its health services.

Little Matti, who has been living in the countryside with his grandmother, leaves for Helsinki to search for his missing mother, Kerttu. In the city,...

Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him...