Finnish Mythology & Folkore

A story about a man whose deep connection to nature and forest spirits has alienated from normal life.

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 operations and aboard vessels, but preferably near a lake, to dive in even on ice days, with trees to cut whisking birches from. Weekly, usually on Saturday, is considered a hygienic minimum, daily the good life, especially in summer and holidays. It's a family and/or social activity, relaxing and removing social barriers, but also linked to sports and all kinds of bonding.

As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.

A documentary that unveils the primeval forests of Northern Finland, some of Europe's sole remaining, old-growth forests.

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.

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.

Two men, a Finnish and a Byelorussian live, alone, in a lake's island.

The series traces and sifts through the remains of the Medieval Dead. Specially assembled experts Tim Sutherland, Malin Holst and Simon Richardson travel battlegrounds and battlefields, towns and villages, churches and burial grounds to search for clues hidden in the bones of the dead from medieval time.

Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, inspired by the tales in the Kalevala, go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with the Nordic people, and consider the great questions of life, their relationship to life, love and death.

The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907.

The evil witch Louhi kidnaps Lemminkäinen's sister to build for her a Sampo, a device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.

Based on Aleksis Kivi's 1870 book, with the same title. It follows the lives of the seven Jukola brothers over several years.

A documentary about Finnish lakes, the nature around them, circulation of water and ancient Finnish mythology.

From childhood memoirs of author Sakari Pälsi, two little boys Sakari and Arvo live in the early-20th-century Finnish countryside and annoy grownups with their pranks. The episodes span from the apple-picking time of autumn through the winter all the way to the next summer's haymaking.

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

Interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansi, Hungarians, Sami, Nganasans, and Estonians who appear in the film.