Movies by Toivo Mäkelä

Hän varasti elämän

Hän varasti elämän

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.

Justus järjestää kaiken

Justus järjestää kaiken

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

Syntipukki

Syntipukki

"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he knows.

Kultainen vasikka

Kultainen vasikka

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

Scarlet Week

Scarlet Week

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.

Asessorin naishuolet

Asessorin naishuolet

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Kovanaama

Kovanaama

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

Viettelysten tie

Viettelysten tie

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.

The Witch

The Witch

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...

Pitkäjärveläiset

Pitkäjärveläiset

1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman. Regina's two sisters and Sikala's maid Maria have fallen in love with Martti again.

Oppenheimerin tapaus

Oppenheimerin tapaus

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.

Lasisydän

Lasisydän

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.