Movies: Kari Franck

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effect...

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

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 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives u...

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge en...

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from....

Nordic people living in Ibiza meet at a party organized by artist Nitta....

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator....

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland....

The story of the seven Jukola brothers in 19th century Finland....

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A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä....

TV play about the legend of Lalli....

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Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect...

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Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the people that the Spanish Civil War is a war of ideas, and that there is no place for individuals like Lorca ...

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive...