Esko Salminen Movies

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a...

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor,...

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

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

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

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...

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs....

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his...

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

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

In this somewhat uneven political satire, good revolutionaries have overthrown a totalitarian state riddled with corruption on all levels when a...

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

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a...

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

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the...

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