Aku Peltonen Movies

A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute...

Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.

The local doctor Aarno works with his nurse wife Asta. After the death of their child, the spouses have distanced themselves from each other. The man...

Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film...

A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman.

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

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry...

Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's...

An adaptation of Frans Eemil Sillanpää's novel of the same title. Only a fragment of this film survives.

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other...

A small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge.

Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war.

After being harassed at the office by her boss, Eila gets sacked and tries to find a new job. After difficulties, she eventually begins to work as a...