Juha-Veli Äkräs Movies

An exemplary reconstruction of a historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories.

A young woman has to attend a self-improvement camp

18-year-old Ursula wants to be an adult, but Mårten and Harri, both in their thirties, do not. Ursula ends up becoming a drug courier for the...

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter...

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric...

A documentary about Ior Bock, and a legend passed down in the Bock family about the thousand-year-old temple of Lemminkäinen, located in...

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the...

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

The ups and downs of the popular music world are revealed to a singer.

A young woman recovering from a suicide attempt arrives in a war-torn city and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Jeanne befriends the author...

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

An adolescent boy’s life is slipping into a vicious cycle of crime and school.

In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem...

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A...

Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...

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...

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...

A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that...