Valentin Vaala Movies

Originally made as an ad for reindeer meat but includes notable documentary material from Lapland. A young couple from Helsinki goes to a restaurant...

Everlasting summer and everlasting youth.

Valentin Vaala's (and Teuvo Tulio's) first film. Only fragments survive.

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

Doctor's daughter Leila is getting married to engineer Lauri. Before the wedding, Lauri's ex-girlfriend Asta and poet Esko, who is in love with...

A successful doctor moves back to her home village and notices severe flaws in its health services.

Documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

After many years away a woman returns to her hometown in Lapland with her husband. There she falls in love with a handsome forester.

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

A bored rich girl falls in love with a dock worker.

Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

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...

War documentary short from Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.

A commissioned film about wintertime seafaring in Finland