Movies by Maria Järvenhelmi

Lights in the Dusk

Lights in the Dusk

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time

Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat

Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat

A war movie that takes place in Finnish Karelia in 1944.

A Respectable Tragedy

A Respectable Tragedy

In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because ...