Overview of articles
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Paavo Nurmi – The Man and His Times
Paavo Nurmi is a sports legend, a name people know to this day. For Finland, Nurmi was an ideal, an axiom of the nation’s spirit…Published on: -
Blue Sky – Journey Into the Land of Memories
The dance pavilion considered as the centre of social life, with the Finnish tango as the key to the collective unconscious – the dream life…Published on: -
A Day at Karl Marx’s Grave
A hundred years after the great 19th-century German philosopher’s demise, ordinary people from some 20 nations talk about his legacy. To the people, MPublished on: -
The Year 1939
In 1939, Finland was preparing for a 1940 Helsinki Olympics that wouldn’t happen, as well as for a war that indeed would. A collage of…Published on: -
The Painting Sellers
Winner of the student competition in Cannes is a delicate family drama about an exceptional friendship in icy Finland.Published on: -
Kauas pilvet karkaavat
Latest impressive film by productive, idiosyncratic Kaurismäki is a psychological sketch of unemployment.Published on: -
Jos 6 olis 9
Young girls change into sexual beings in a fiction film with a documentary feel.Published on: -
Prisoners of the Ground
The lyrics of the Finnish Tango are the inspiration for this film, telling of the desire to escape from dark, daily reality.Published on: -
Where Is Where?
Spectres from an ‘incident’ during the Algerian War visit a Finnish poetess. One of 2009’s most intellectually challenging and rewarding films.Published on: -
Twisted Roots
Stylish drama in which the secrets and desires of a Finnish family can no longer be suppressed. A hereditary illness overcomes Mikko. He fears he…Published on: