Movies by Kari Väänänen
![Christmas Story](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9SBgvVBhaedbQods3ZcIRY2NS4X.jpg)
Christmas Story
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter,...
![Hamlet Goes Business](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5OjVh44NDV3m8ePTt2BXMWTzlH5.jpg)
Hamlet Goes Business
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
![One Foot Under](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xpCmH0OM24W8AdTyBrHl6yTjBSr.jpg)
One Foot Under
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.
![Fingerpori](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ksLdXEIwbvpqfFaWGGq3UdyHxqQ.jpg)
Fingerpori
Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.
![Underwater Iceland](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/imJsO31JDqhYfM0ybyCoOfacSUP.jpg)
Underwater Iceland
Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwater world. We explore the geysers of boiling waters and the crystal clear lakes off the coast of Iceland. We dive under the icebergs, into the tears between the continental plates and into the deep caves.
![Ylösnousemus](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eYLTJyndMdRqHXl21DYC8bhew2V.jpg)
Ylösnousemus
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
![Siriuksen vieraat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nrMTUg99YCeHnB5h0sMz8i4MsV3.jpg)
Siriuksen vieraat
![Dirty Hands](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/53J37U7N9Gz8BEMYdVB3seeoz5D.jpg)
Dirty Hands
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants ...
![Onni von Sopanen](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fHN9iBIYwMIXsDtpJOCFJLZHUQX.jpg)
Onni von Sopanen
11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.
![Ryhmäteatteri](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sJwXEmuTPNQ1AnTAqSK43NHKbgd.jpg)
Ryhmäteatteri
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
![The Grump: In Search of an Escort](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9VnOl9VzS5LiQqIgG6wC97dORsE.jpg)
The Grump: In Search of an Escort
Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be scrapped. A new, modern vehicle is no match for quality and the nearest Escort, a 1972 model, can be found in Germany. When the Grumps's sons refuse to help, he must travel to Germany alone.
![Lakeuden kutsu](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ec8tAYS9ODAa1ypS9UzwFSQmhkd.jpg)
Lakeuden kutsu
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?
![Kiwi Christmas](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mSEVkTNCc7BXWOX9bExsXY0oNF0.jpg)
Kiwi Christmas
Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to find a way to get him back to the North Pole in time for Christmas.
![Drifting Clouds](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xxzuKTo3RNyyUGXghfVkeiSbVDt.jpg)
Drifting Clouds
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
![We Are the Pirates of the Roads](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/uovXgopZCdSET5DN8vMBPvRFaof.jpg)
We Are the Pirates of the Roads
The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing cars of their sweets, extra food and consumer goods. Life changes for the Rosvolas when they accidentally kidnap 10-year-old Vilja, a diligent school girl. Will Vilja succeed in escaping or will she become friends with the Rosvolas´ children Hele (12 years) and Kalle (9 years)? We are the Pirates of the Roads is a funny and crazy adventurous road movie for children.
![Master Cheng](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pXXvSPZ3noWh4M1vw9MbLk9VSCk.jpg)
Master Cheng
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.