Pekka Saaristo

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount.

Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.

Young hockey player Illu spends his summer in local restaurants, just like the stunning blonde Salme, with whom he and every man in town is in love.

A documentary drama about Finnish volunteers who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.

A young boy finds a magic talking shoe that can change his voice to that of an adult.