Anssi Mänttäri Filmes

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off...

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his...

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

Middle-aged municipal architect Mikko is frustrated with his job and his marriage, so for years he has directed his energy into renovating a...

Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen...

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

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...

Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and...

This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.

Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in...

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

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...