Mikko Niskanen

Mikko Niskanen
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 8 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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Kahdeksan surmanluotia
Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story. (imdb)
Hopeaa rajan takaa
Summer 1941, soon after the Finnish Winter War. Wist and Anttala are young war veterans whose homes ended up on the wrong side of the new border after the Soviet Union claimed ownership of the Finnish Karelia as a result of the war. The men decide to reclaim a chest full of silver that was hidden under Wist's home before the family was evacuated to Finland... (imdb)
Käpy selän alla
Four city youngsters camp on country side. One is an introvert, empty ladies man and one sexually frustrated. The other two are their companion. The tense grows during flick and bursts after a nightly visit on a dancing place. (Me)
Lapualaismorsian
A theater group is training for the political play. There is young students hanging out and talking about current events they try to find their places in the society and life after studing. (Me)
Pojat
A story of the life of a group of boys in Northern Finland during WWII.
Asfalttilampaat
Adaptation of a novel by Sakari Haara. Story about young love, mental-illness and a narrow-minded atmosphere in a summery small town.
Sissit
Operations of guerrilla division in WWII and the toll it takes of the soldiers.
Pulakapina
A group of farmers start to rebel against the authorities after it is announced that their malnourished horse will be killed. Based on the events of Nivala rebellion of 1932.