Jouko Lumme Movies

The story follows Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim and Quartermaster General Airo at the Finnish Defense Forces headquarters in Mikkeli during the decisive moments of the Continuation War in the summer of 1944. With a major offensive on the Karelian Isthmus imminent, Airo gives the order to attack...

Monologue movie that won Jussi Award in Best Actress category. Middle aged woman tells about her life in restaurant.

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

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad...

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets...

A lyrical documentary captures a small mountain village in Portugal, showcasing its timeless essence amid historical changes. As men leave for stone-cutting work, women take charge in their absence, surrounded by snowy mountains and wandering sheep and cattle, with dogs guarding against wolves.

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters.

A middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.

A praised war hero leaves his wife and finds a new love from Ural.

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.

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

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend Anna for a break in his home village in Kainuu, located near the Soviet border and the war zone, which is protected from partisans by a military unit led by Sergeant Tolvanen.

Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.

Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.