Ville Salminen Movies

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the...

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in...

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of...

A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.

Three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.

Perky student Inkeri 'Iiri' Paappanen and businessman Taavi Takkulainen fall in love during a boat trip, but a misunderstanding at a hotel in...

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.

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