Movies by Erkki Pajala

Aidankaatajat

Aidankaatajat

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers

Ariel

Ariel

After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and imprisoned for various crimes.

The Manila Rope

The Manila Rope

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word...