Esko Salminen Movies

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and...

The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a...

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

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

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...