Risto Jarva

Directing

Risto Jarva

Born — Died

1934-07-15 — 1977-12-16

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Risto Jarva was a leading filmmaker in the Finnish cinema of the 1960's and the 1970's as well as one of the founders of the production company Filminor. He died aged 43 in a car accident on his way home from the premiere of his now classic film The Year of the Hare (1977).

Known for

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

X-Paroni poster
4.7

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

X-Paroni

1964

Onnenpeli poster
5.1

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.

Onnenpeli

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Työtä ylioppilasteatterissa

1961

Loma poster
5.8

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.

Loma

1976

When the Heavens Fall… poster
6.6

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

When the Heavens Fall…

1972

Film credits

Behind the camera

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

X-Paroni poster
4.7

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

X-Paroni

1964

X-Paroni poster
4.7

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

X-Paroni

1964

X-Paroni poster
4.7

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

X-Paroni

1964

Onnenpeli poster
5.1

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.

Onnenpeli

1965

Onnenpeli poster
5.1

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.

Onnenpeli

1965

Onnenpeli poster
5.1

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.

Onnenpeli

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Työtä ylioppilasteatterissa

1961

Loma poster
5.8

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.

Loma

1976

Loma poster
5.8

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.

Loma

1976

When the Heavens Fall… poster
6.6

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

When the Heavens Fall…

1972

When the Heavens Fall… poster
6.6

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

When the Heavens Fall…

1972

Computers Serve poster
6.0

The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968. The voice-over accentuates the highly topical promulgation set against the dangers of monotonous office work and computer totalitarianism.

Computers Serve

1968

Computers Serve poster
6.0

The futuristic aesthetics of Computers Serve offers an illustrative account of the history of computers, their prospects and the risks within, as seen in 1968. The voice-over accentuates the highly topical promulgation set against the dangers of monotonous office work and computer totalitarianism.

Computers Serve

1968

Kitka - a poem in living water poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kitka - a poem in living water

1963

Kitka - a poem in living water poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kitka - a poem in living water

1963

A Worker's Diary poster
5.8

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.

A Worker's Diary

1967

A Worker's Diary poster
5.8

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.

A Worker's Diary

1967

A Worker's Diary poster
5.8

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business trips, housing problems, concerns about the money and political disagreements.

A Worker's Diary

1967

Bensaa suonissa poster
4.7

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Bensaa suonissa

1970

Bensaa suonissa poster
4.7

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Bensaa suonissa

1970

Bensaa suonissa poster
4.7

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Bensaa suonissa

1970

The Green Widow poster
4.8

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

The Green Widow

1968

Kreivi poster
4.5

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.

Kreivi

1971

The Year of the Hare poster
7.3

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

The Year of the Hare

1977

The Year of the Hare poster
7.3

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

The Year of the Hare

1977

No artwork available
NR

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

Parempaan asumiseen

1968

No artwork available
NR

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

Parempaan asumiseen

1968

No artwork available
NR

An experimental short film by Risto Jarva.

9 runoa

1959

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

1970

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

1970

One Man's War poster
7.1

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.

One Man's War

1974

One Man's War poster
7.1

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.

One Man's War

1974

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei poster
6.1

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

1975

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei poster
6.1

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

1975

Yö vai päivä poster
5.8

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer night celebrations overwhelm the researchers.

Yö vai päivä

1962

Yö vai päivä poster
5.8

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer night celebrations overwhelm the researchers.

Yö vai päivä

1962

Woman and Society poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Woman and Society

1968