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Risto Jarva was a leading filmmaker in the Finnish cinema of the 1960's and the 1970's as well as one of the founders of the production company Filminor. He died aged 43 in a car accident on his way home from the premiere of his now classic film The Year of the Hare (1977).
Total trailers found: 26
07 February 1969
In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera.
02 January 1968
Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
18 September 1970
Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
17 December 1976
After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for.
27 February 1972
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
23 January 1970
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend.
30 October 1964
Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle.
01 October 1965
Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.
26 December 1984
Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films
26 February 1967
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.
01 January 1968
The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968.
19 January 1968
A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
09 February 1964
The film is the first commission for the budding production company Filminor Oy, commissioned by the City of Tampere.
15 August 2008
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh.
18 January 1974
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child.
23 December 1977
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness.
21 November 1975
Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses.
05 February 1971
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go.
23 November 1962
A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer night celebrations overwhelm the researchers.
18 January 1967
With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films, it is a lively analysis of urban living and the functions of the city.
