Anssi Mänttäri

Directing

Anssi Mänttäri

Born

1941-12-18 (84)

Place of birth

Sippola, Finland

Known for

Directing

Credits

62 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

1980s · 5 titles

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Kevät 1943 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kevät 1943

1990

Kevät 1943 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kevät 1943

1990

Annabel Lee poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Annabel Lee

1990

Annabel Lee poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Annabel Lee

1990

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin poster
4.5

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

1983

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin poster
4.5

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

1983

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin poster
4.5

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

1983

Salama poster
NR

Interview documentary about Finnish author Hannu Salama (born 1936).

Salama

1986

The Inspector poster
NR

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

The Inspector

2011

The Inspector poster
NR

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

The Inspector

2011

Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti poster
8.0

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.

Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti

1979

Muuttolinnun aika poster
7.0

Ossi hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.

Muuttolinnun aika

1991

Muuttolinnun aika poster
7.0

Ossi hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.

Muuttolinnun aika

1991

Men Can't Be Raped poster
6.5

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

Men Can't Be Raped

1978

Rakkauselokuva poster
5.0

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.

Rakkauselokuva

1984

Rakkauselokuva poster
5.0

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.

Rakkauselokuva

1984

Rakkauselokuva poster
5.0

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.

Rakkauselokuva

1984

Eros and Psyche poster
4.6

This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.

Eros and Psyche

1998

Marraskuun harmaa valo poster
6.2

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

Marraskuun harmaa valo

1993

Marraskuun harmaa valo poster
6.2

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

Marraskuun harmaa valo

1993

Marraskuun harmaa valo poster
6.2

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

Marraskuun harmaa valo

1993

Toto poster
6.0

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Toto

1982

Toto poster
6.0

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Toto

1982

Toto poster
6.0

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Toto

1982

The Clan: Tale of the Frogs poster
6.7

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

1984

Palkkasoturi poster
5.8

The story of a modest man, played by Ilkka Heiskanen, who decides to become a mercenary in the Yugoslavian civil war. This decision leaves him completely destitute. His parents do not approve of his decision, nor do his friends at the local bar.

Palkkasoturi

1997

Palkkasoturi poster
5.8

The story of a modest man, played by Ilkka Heiskanen, who decides to become a mercenary in the Yugoslavian civil war. This decision leaves him completely destitute. His parents do not approve of his decision, nor do his friends at the local bar.

Palkkasoturi

1997

Dirlandaa poster
5.0

Without money, without papers, and without language skills, Pena manages to get by in Fuengirola, whether on the beach, in restaurants, or at pig festivals.

Dirlandaa

2000

Dirlandaa poster
5.0

Without money, without papers, and without language skills, Pena manages to get by in Fuengirola, whether on the beach, in restaurants, or at pig festivals.

Dirlandaa

2000

Dirlandaa poster
5.0

Without money, without papers, and without language skills, Pena manages to get by in Fuengirola, whether on the beach, in restaurants, or at pig festivals.

Dirlandaa

2000

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship poster
3.5

The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship

2012

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship poster
3.5

The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship

2012

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship poster
3.5

The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.

The Rise and Fall of a Friendship

2012

Morena poster
4.7

Redbeard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.

Morena

1986

Morena poster
4.7

Redbeard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.

Morena

1986

Morena poster
4.7

Redbeard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.

Morena

1986

Joensuun Elli poster
6.0

The film shows how Midsummer was celebrated in North Karelia in 1973.

Joensuun Elli

2004

Joensuun Elli poster
6.0

The film shows how Midsummer was celebrated in North Karelia in 1973.

Joensuun Elli

2004

Joensuun Elli poster
6.0

The film shows how Midsummer was celebrated in North Karelia in 1973.

Joensuun Elli

2004

Kello poster
4.5

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.

Kello

1984