Movies: Jouko Lumme

On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland....

Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988....

Paavo Mäkinen's alcoholism is hard on the whole family. His wife Terttu falls into depression and is hospitalized. Their children Marja, Tapsa, and Sanna each show symptoms in their own way: leaving home, drinking, skipping school. Will Paavo manage ...

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, ...

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style....

Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home....

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge....

A praised war hero leaves his wife and finds a new love from Ural....

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages ...

Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste....

A lyrical documentary captures a small mountain village in Portugal, showcasing its timeless essence amid historical changes. As men leave for stone-cutting work, women take charge in their absence, surrounded by snowy mountains and wandering sheep a...

Monologue movie that won Jussi Award in Best Actress category. Middle aged woman tells about her life in restaurant....

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky....

According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters....

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"...

This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing....

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self w...