Matti Lehtelä Movies

An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be...

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

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...

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...

Helsinki judge Wilhelm Thorén arrives to investigate the financial mess at Niementaustan Manor. The estate of the declining Carenius noble...

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His...

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

The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the...

The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride...

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

A couple who have moved from the city manage a collapsing farm. The man Alfred is an alcoholic, therefore the responsible to solve the situation is...

Ilona Jonsson deceives the old industrialist Österberg. He takes pity on the poor girl, who looks like the doppelganger of his dead daughter....

Based on a song by the same name. It was the Genre Popularizer for the Rillumarei film and live entertainment genre that drew from the musical...

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

The spoiled girl Elli Arto joins the military service for women longing for a life of excitement. Out there she grows-up to a responsible adult.

After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until...

A story about the life of Eero, a machine shop worker, and his younger brother Martin in the working-class neighborhoods of Helsinki, and the change...

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...

Elina, the daughter of a small farmer, would like to attend a folk high school, but her father Nestor opposes the idea. Elina suffers a severe skull...