Markku Pölönen
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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Perpetually bothered by stage-fright, singer Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki runs away from a gig in Helsinki. One of his old friends is sent to do a story on him for a newspaper, and they travel to their former home village in the country. The characters' interaction and memories illustrate the singer's life and feelings. (imdb)
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Pekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village. (imdb)
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Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws... (imdb)
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Topi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). The movie tells the story about Tenho and his 10 years old son who both have to grow up in the same summer. (imdb)
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The Koppelos are an old family of tailors way back from the court of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. They are in constant journey for the place of their happier future. For them "El Dorado" is a town called Lieksa. Love, hate and troubles of all kind, that`s life, but like in almost every road movie, the journey it self here is the point. "Your home is where your heart is." (YouTube)
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A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic. (imdb)
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Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he scores the hottest girl in the village. A hot romance flares up between Tenho and the sensuous milkmaid Virva, accompanied by popular Finnish tango tunes.
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Anni falls in love with Veikko who has come back from the war and leaves her secure life behind to find happiness in the middle of Karelian forest.
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