Risto Jarva Movies

  • 1977
    The Year of the Hare

    The Year of the Hare

    The Year of the Hare

    7.11977HD

    Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A...

    The Year of the Hare
  • 1975
    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

    5.71975HD

    Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the...

    Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei
  • 1971
    Kreivi

    Kreivi

    Kreivi

    4.11971HD

    Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter...

    Kreivi
  • 1970
    Bensaa suonissa

    Bensaa suonissa

    Bensaa suonissa

    4.81970HD

    Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

    Bensaa suonissa
  • 1972
    When the Heavens Fall…

    When the Heavens Fall…

    When the Heavens Fall…

    6.11972HD

    A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

    When the Heavens Fall…
  • 1968
    Parempaan asumiseen

    Parempaan asumiseen

    Parempaan asumiseen

    01968HD

    Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

    Parempaan asumiseen
  • 1974
    One Man's War

    One Man's War

    One Man's War

    6.81974HD

    Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

    One Man's War
  • 1969
    Time of Roses

    Time of Roses

    Time of Roses

    4.81969HD

    In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

    Time of Roses
  • 1968
    The Green Widow

    The Green Widow

    The Green Widow

    3.51968HD

    A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

    The Green Widow
  • 1965
    Onnenpeli

    Onnenpeli

    Onnenpeli

    5.11965HD

    Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight...

    Onnenpeli
  • 1967
    A Worker's Diary

    A Worker's Diary

    A Worker's Diary

    5.91967HD

    Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business...

    A Worker's Diary
  • 2008
    Helsinki, Forever

    Helsinki, Forever

    Helsinki, Forever

    6.852008HD

    Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

    Helsinki, Forever
  • 1964
    X-Paroni

    X-Paroni

    X-Paroni

    3.71964HD

    Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both...

    X-Paroni
  • 1976
    Loma

    Loma

    Loma

    5.91976HD

    After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter...

    Loma
  • 1969
    Frozen Foods

    Frozen Foods

    Frozen Foods

    71969HD

    A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising.

    Frozen Foods
  • 1970
    Kesäkapina

    Kesäkapina

    Kesäkapina

    5.41970HD

    Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl...

    Kesäkapina
  • 1970
    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

    01970HD

    Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
  • 1968
    Computers Serve

    Computers Serve

    Computers Serve

    61968HD

    The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as...

    Computers Serve
  • 1963
    Kitka - a poem in living water

    Kitka - a poem in living water

    Kitka - a poem in living water

    41963HD

    Kitka - a poem in living water
  • 1962
    Yö vai päivä

    Yö vai päivä

    Yö vai päivä

    51962HD

    Yö vai päivä