Pentti Auer 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.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they...

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who...

Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a...

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...

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime...

Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.