Mika Waltari Movies

The Finnish coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely...

A handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then taking their money.

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...

Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what...

Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her...

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent...

Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.

Young inventor Janne is lonely. He falls in love with beautiful girls, but his feelings are not reciprocated. Heartbreak and failure rob Janne of his...

Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so...

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 the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at...

Eino, a Karelian soldier wounded in the Winter War, cannot settle into his new home in Häme. He becomes embittered by the poor treatment of...

Caritas is a mysterious young woman who is the center of a group of decadent young Finnish artists in the 1920s. The real protagonist, Hart, is a...

Frustrated housewife Elisabet Avovirta has a spring romance with a younger man, journalist Jaakko Huhtikuu. Love sprinkles in the rays of the spring...

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over...

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.

Photos of authors Toivo Pekkanen, Helvi Hämäläinen, Lauri Viljanen, Mika Waltari, Aale Tynni, Olavi Paavolainen and Kaarlo Sarkia, as...

An art history student with lung disease arrives to do research on a secluded and alcoholic artist. The student is interested in why the artist's...