Mikko Niskanen Movies

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to...

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys...

A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki.

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the...

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the...

Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a...

Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard...

Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.

A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.

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...

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova...

Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises...

Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.

A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also...

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.