3 Movies Starring Toivo Mèkelè

The Witch

The Witch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-10-03

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland

Runtime:

80 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (190 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Roland af Hèllstrèm

Kaarlo Nuorvala

Mika Waltari (play)

Fullplot:

Archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy. Everybody is certain that this really is the witch killed in days of yore. At the end the wild happenings during those few days appeared to be a dream of the professor leading the excavations.

Scarlet Week

Scarlet Week

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-02-26

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland

Runtime:

70 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (135 Reviews)

Director:

Matti Kassila

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Jarl Hemmer (novel)

Matti Kassila

Fullplot:

A Bergmanesque triangle drama. After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.

The Harvest Month

The Harvest Month

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-10-05

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (167 Reviews)

Director:

Matti Kassila

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Matti Kassila

F.E. Sillanpèè (novel)

Fullplot:

Viktor Sundvall is a guard of a little channel in the Finnish countryside. He is an unsuccessful playwright who is frustrated with his marriage and his life and therefore he has became an alcoholic. One Saturday-morning in august he is waiting for a visit of an old family-friend Maija Lènsilehto with whom he has had a relationship in his youth. But Sundvall does not know that the Saturday will be the last day of his life.

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