Valentin Vaala Movies

The film depicts Finland's actions in the Winter War and Continuation War using a compilation of material collected from narrators, map images, and...

Liisa Harju, a lively and quick-witted teacher from Savo, gets her first job in Latomeri, Ostrobothnia. She falls out of favor with the local women...

A bored rich girl falls in love with a dock worker.

Everlasting summer and everlasting youth.

Doctor's daughter Leila is getting married to engineer Lauri. Before the wedding, Lauri's ex-girlfriend Asta and poet Esko, who is in love with...

Teacher's daughter Anna cannot enter the music college because of her family's opposition. At the request of her relatives she goes to Helsinki to...

After many years away a woman returns to her hometown in Lapland with her husband. There she falls in love with a handsome forester.

Tuulikki Tenho, who lied about her marital status to get a job as a secretary at a timber company, has to pretend that she is married to Yrjö...

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women.

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

A compilation of excerpts from old Helsinki-themed documentaries and new material.

Documentary on film making.

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

Description of the film making, samples of the production of two long films of Finland-Film in summer 1937. Both are Valentin Vaala's guitars from...

Jarvala's daughter Aliina and the miller Jalmari Hurttia are in love with each other. Jarvala's father does not approve of the miller as a...

Blind since birth, Antreas Tuurio earns a meager living selling brushes at the Market Square. Despite his disability, he is a cheerful and optimistic...

Documentary compilation of Finnish Defence Forces Newsreels keeping the people up-to-date with the latest about the war.

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