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Katariina, an orphaned girl from the north, travels to Helsinki to live with her distant relative Mauri, who has been appointed her guardian. The unpretentious child of nature irritates, amuses, and charms Mauri, who is accustomed to high society, and his bachelor friends.
Adalbert "Mussu" Koikkalainen inherits 9,000 marks from his uncle. To buy a milk shop, Koikkalainen needs another thousand marks and work experience, so he applies for a job at the department store Sampo, where he is hired as a scapegoat to receive customer complaints. The saleswoman Irja Salo, who is under threat of dismissal, falls in love with the general manager Vaara, whom she thinks is a traveling salesman.
This Finlandia Survey compilation ranges from 1949 to 1961, and in it we get to see glimpses of news from both local matches and early international matches. The brave Finns play against the infamous Soviet Red Machine, Canada, and a team of journalists.
A commisioned film about Finnish import
The short documentary Holiday Days on Teno, wonderfully filmed by the Grand Old Man of Lapland films, Aimo Jäderholm (b. 1916), is a dream come true for every fly fisherman and salmon hunter. The film's salmon adventure is based on "Palto Rantteella" in Karigasniemi in late July 1948. From there, the fishing guests, "the stout police chief of Kuopio and other southern crows", set off to catch salmon. Aleksanteri, a skolt from Petsamo, was the rower, and "it was already good enough for others to row, when he himself had pulled a 23-kilogram körilä and much more besides".
Holger Harrivirta and Aimo Jäderholm follow the 25 reindeer tracks assembled by Aslak Juuso on their journey from Kaaresuvanto to Kilpisjärvi in the spring of 1948. The camera's images don't just show the spring sunshine, they also capture a sudden snowstorm brought by the changing weather. But the reindeer can withstand all the weather in Lapland, "the reindeer is so wild that it doesn't even learn its name". The journey continues on the ice of Kilpisjärvi past the sacred Saana, Pohjola rides reindeer...
The introductory film of the Finnish Transport Workers' Union contains images of the union's activities and the transportation of goods using various vehicles, as well as the unloading and loading of cargo.
Documentary about hydrography at the Baltic Sea
Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian Lapland.
Presentation of the Turin Crafts Museum.
A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.
A successful doctor moves back to her home village and notices severe flaws in its health services.
Documentary about Finnish zoo.
Ulla Järvinen gets a telegram about the death of her aunt and that she has inherited a manor, but the aunt is very much alive.
The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.
A documentary about the forestry work in Lapland during the war reparations years. Finland's expensive green gold is being harvested in a snowy winter. Finland is the most forested country in Europe, there is an ever-increasing workforce, the work is hard, the food is delicious, sweat comes off the muscles. The horse is a tough colleague, but there are both "fighters" and "bombers" in the convoy. Kämp has a sharp head for the management and a dull head for the crew, and there is guaranteed to be a sauna in every one.
In the film, the summer vacation is spent hiking, swimming, eating at a restaurant, doing haymaking and tending to the vegetable garden.
Reconstruction, operations of Suomen Huolto.