Esko Salminen Movies

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

A fisherman's son accidentally ends up in a leper colony in 1742.

1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other...

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Ilona, a young teacher, arrives in a village in Tavastia. She and Aarne, the wealthy owner of the Niskavuori farm, who is frustrated with his...

A boxer wins his match, but is losing his woman. Through nightly philosophical discussions, the only companion is his opponent - still wobbly from...

An adult love story – as wistful as a Finnish tango.

Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a...

Pirkko Mannola and Esko Salminen play young pop stars of the same name, who develop a secret romance that is kept hidden from the other musicians in...