Tauno Palo

Tauno Palo plays the son of a farm-owner called Reino Köyri.He hits his head after he has a horse accident and wakes up in a house where he's nursed by the beautiful Anna Liuhala (Hilkka Helinä). Naturally they eventually fall in love... (IMDB Comments)

Comedy set somewhere in the late 19th or early 20th century tells a story about lumberjacks, several beautiful girls, one family in trouble and one lawman who is willing to break law to get what he wants.

The "Härmän häjyt" were a bunch of peasants in the 19th century Finland who preferred to make their own laws and show their own selected virtues instead of obeying the official authorities. While living in the countryside among deeply devout believers and over-zealous state officials, the idea of personal freedom is lead into crisis. (Shaolin Apu (IMDb.com))

A new judge comes in a small town and raises interest of two young women, but a lot can happen in one night.

Taxi driver Tauno and tourist guide Ansa come up with a new hit song but the success drives them against each other.

Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect. (imdb)

Businessman involved in shady deals hires a lookalike to take his place.

A social worker starts working on a shady part of town, and a criminal falls for her.

Professor becomes a dock worker and becomes involved on labour politics on both sides.

Man gets a letter from a woman he doesn't remember but who has been in love with him for years.

Away from a rainstorm, a girl and a man end up in a small cabin. She thinks he is a famous smuggler, while he is actually a police after the smuggler.

Family man has divorced his wife and married his young secretary, but starts to regret his decision.

Fourth play of Niskavuori cycle.

Fifth play of Niskavuori cycle, a fugitive stranger with a past comes to Niskavuori.

Milkmaid Hilja is being wooed by young artist Yrjö and jealous farmhand Kalevi.

A woman and her lover accidentally kill a boy.

A girl falls in love with a famous pianist, but her past comes between them.

Hockey coach falls for a fashion designer, and they get involved with gem smugglers.

Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. She lies that she has recently married and then gets a stranger from a nearby restaurant to pose as her husband. Complications arise when they have to continue their charade. (imdb)

Peter von Bagh draws a portrait of Tauno Palo - one of the most popular finnish actors in 20th century, acting in theatre for over 45 years and on film for 30 years - tying together material from fiction films and an interview which was made a year before his death.

In the 16th Century Finland was under Protestant reformation. The Livonian Brother of the Sword fell in love with a beautiful young girl. But a monk fell in love with her as well. (MuutaNet)

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him. So, that's when the film really starts......

The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the house director of Suomi-Filmi and the film which launched the most beloved screen couple of Finland, Tauno Palo and Ansa Ikonen.

A man and a woman share a marriage and a business. But how does the business manage when then marriage turns sour?

Cinderella-like historical romance in the eve of Crimean War.

Tauno Palo is an artist who bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his model.

A nobleman returns home after many years and finds his fiancée married to an evil baron, so he becomes a pirate with many adventures.

An anthology film about three children and how they ended in the orphanage.

A woman on her way to old-maidhood meets an old flame who claims his marriage is about to end and wants to get back together, but is he really willing to leave his wife?

The first Finnish talking picture(with English subtitles) to be released in the United States is a story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living. Tauno Palo marries Irja Lautia because his mother, Olga Tainio, tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive Sirkka Sari, a school teacher arrives in the village and causes complications when Palo falls in love with her. (imdb)

Description of the film making, samples of the production of two long films of Finland-Film in summer 1937. Both are Valentin Vaala's guitars from Hella Wuolijoki's plays: Juurako Hulda (1937) and Niskavuori Naisten (1938).

An aging mathematics professor has become estranged from his family, but now that his major work gets finished things will change.

Lieutenant general T. J. A. Heikkilä (Tauno Palo) is sent to Sierranueva on a secret mission with his adjutant Silvio (Jorma Nortimo). In Sierranueva, they get mixed up in a political conspiracy, and Heikkilä meets a dark mysterious woman (Regina Linnanheimo).

A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.

It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja’s captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.

Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never loses her common sense, and starts taking evening classes. Keeping her studies secret from her employer for years, she eventually graduates from the university and becomes candidate in the parliamentary election, stressing women's and working people's rights. Romance with Judge Soratie finally ensues.