Jaakko Pakkasvirta Movies

Construction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Sini is waiting for her husband to return from a trip and starts thinking about her past relationship with Jaska. She invites him to a party, where...

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business...

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

An jolly gang of elderly people plan to rob a bank.

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

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...

In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.

Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.

With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films,...

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an...

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a...