Lasse Pöysti Movies

Based on Lauri Viita's fairy tale. In Kukunor, two trolls, Kukunor and Kalahari, read books and travel the world in their dreams.

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

This television adaptation presents Molière’s comedy The School of Wives, centering on Arnolphe, an older bachelor who plans to marry...

Eero Tyrni, a reporter for Iltapäivä newspaper, is in Austria doing a story on ski jumper Teemu Kimpilä. Kimpilä's jumps fail and...

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to...

In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the...

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very...

The story is set in Helsinki's revue theater Punainen Mylly, run by Jalmari Haapala with Erkki Pajula as its lead singer. Between performances,...

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent...

Middle-aged schoolteacher Viveka and her husband Sune enter a marriage marked by devotion and increasing strain. As Viveka’s jealousy and...

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.

A Finnish television play based on August Strindberg’s original.

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen, who starts his military service through...

In the heart of Savo, police officer Kontkanen is searching for Heikki, a man suspected of selling alcohol. At the same time, he tries to catch the...

Miss Europe Hunting (1955) is a romantic comedy directed by Erik Blomberg and co-written with Lars-Eric Malmlund, which utilizes material recorded...

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just...

One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to...