Movies: Markku Lehmuskallio

  • 1980
    Milka: A Film About Taboos

    Milka: A Film About Taboos (1980)

    Milka: A Film About Taboos

    5.81980HD

    Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to ...

    Milka: A Film About Taboos
  • 1998
    Uhri - elokuva metsästä

    Uhri - elokuva metsästä (1998)

    Uhri - elokuva metsästä

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    Uhri - elokuva metsästä
  • 1976
    Antti Puuhaara

    Antti Puuhaara (1976)

    Antti Puuhaara

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    In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the tragedian and the comedian, who were banished from Tsarist Russia to Karelia, had predicted to the crook...

    Antti Puuhaara
  • 2000
    Seven Songs from the Tundra

    Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000)

    Seven Songs from the Tundra

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    An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how their way of life was disrupted by the advent of Soviet power....

    Seven Songs from the Tundra
  • 2017
    Pyhä

    Pyhä (2017)

    Pyhä

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    Pyhä
  • 1992
    I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter

    I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter (1992)

    I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter

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    A close and passionate look at the art of arctic peoples from the earliest findings to the beginning of the 20th century. “There are no talking heads, there is no dramatic lighting or sharp focus in these two long movies. Rather, each object is lovin...

    I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter
  • 2019
    Wandering in the White

    Wandering in the White (2019)

    Wandering in the White

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    When two former top orienteers end up in a snowstorm in Lapland wilderness, they face an impossible orienteering task: how to reach your destination when you can't tell earth from sky?...

    Wandering in the White
  • 1984
    Aikalainen

    Aikalainen (1984)

    Aikalainen

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    A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky....

    Aikalainen
  • 1977
    Pulakapina

    Pulakapina (1977)

    Pulakapina

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    Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises the farmers in open rebellion against the authorities....

    Pulakapina
  • 2010
    Pudana: Last of the Line

    Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)

    Pudana: Last of the Line

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    A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new customs, Neko rebels and decides to flee, hoping to get back to her family and old habits...

    Pudana: Last of the Line
  • 2015
    Tsamo

    Tsamo (2015)

    Tsamo

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    In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named Tsamo and decides to bring her to Finland. The child, Tsamo, is baptized and Simon starts to teach her Europea...

    Tsamo
  • 2008
    Travelling

    Travelling (2008)

    Travelling

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    Nedarma (Travelling) is one of several documentary features co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio that portray the daily lives of the Nenets, Lapsui’s tribe based in the northern tundra of Siberia. The film invokes Nenets cosmology ...

    Travelling
  • 1975
    Kesän maku

    Kesän maku (1975)

    Kesän maku

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    Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount....

    Kesän maku
  • 2020
    Anerca, Breath of Life

    Anerca, Breath of Life (2020)

    Anerca, Breath of Life

    6.32020HD

    Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed with his son Johannes Lehmuskallio, he composes a fascinating poetic ethnography inspired by the sing...

    Anerca, Breath of Life
  • 1980
    The Raven's Dance

    The Raven's Dance (1980)

    The Raven's Dance

    5.11980HD

    With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself ...

    The Raven's Dance
  • 2012
    Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa

    Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa (2012)

    Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa

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    A documentary co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio presenting the mind and thoughts of artists who lived before the history of writing....

    Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa
  • 1982
    Skierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa

    Skierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa (1982)

    Skierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa

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    A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland....

    Skierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa
  • 1988
    Inuksuk

    Inuksuk (1988)

    Inuksuk

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    Film about natives in the north....

    Inuksuk
  • 2004
    A Bride of the Seventh Heaven

    A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (2004)

    A Bride of the Seventh Heaven

    5.62004HD

    An elderly Nenets woman in teepee on northern Russia's Yamal Peninsula recounts her early life betrothed to a deity for the entertainment of a blind young girl. In the Nenets culture, a girl child can be married to holiest of holies, Num, before or a...

    A Bride of the Seventh Heaven
  • 2004
    Fata Morgana

    Fata Morgana (2004)

    Fata Morgana

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    A look into the recent history of the Chukchi people....

    Fata Morgana