Jörn Donner Movies

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.

Long-time cohabiting couple Petteri and Liisa wake up with a terrible hangover and realize to their horror that they got married the night before....

Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate,...

Jörn Donner’s entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance. Whilst others have painted one image or...

Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military...

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman the Finnish writer and director Jörn Donner shares his memories of his friend and...

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic...

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he...

A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth. After her father's death, Marja is plunged...

Documentary about expeditions of Kai Donner to Siberia.

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.

Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.

A short documentary where Helsinki in the springtime is displayed in her poetic ugliness.