Directing

Kalle Kaarna

Born 1887-11-25 · Perniö, Finland

Kalle Kaarna (1887-1964) was a Finnish director and writer

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Tukkijoella poster
7.0

Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.

Tukkijoella

1937

Isoviha poster
6.5

Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to the pastor and enlists in the King's forces, but is wounded in the Battle of Pultava. On his return to Finland, he finds his village besieged by Cossack Captain Voronoff.

Isoviha

1939

Jääkärin morsian poster
3.8

It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja's captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.

Jääkärin morsian

1931

Jääkärin morsian poster
3.8

It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja's captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.

Jääkärin morsian

1931

Elinan surma poster
8.0

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.

Elinan surma

1938

Työn sankarilaulu poster
7.0

A triangular drama set in the factory region and wilderness of Lapland.

Työn sankarilaulu

1929

Työn sankarilaulu poster
7.0

A triangular drama set in the factory region and wilderness of Lapland.

Työn sankarilaulu

1929

Kuisma ja Helinä poster
7.0

Kuisma falls in love with the house maid Helinä, whom the house's slave Isma has kept for himself as a wife. Helinä finds Kuisma attractive but their love will never be accepted by Isma. A passion play that ends bad.

Kuisma ja Helinä

1932

Kuisma ja Helinä poster
7.0

Kuisma falls in love with the house maid Helinä, whom the house's slave Isma has kept for himself as a wife. Helinä finds Kuisma attractive but their love will never be accepted by Isma. A passion play that ends bad.

Kuisma ja Helinä

1932

Erämaan turvissa poster
10.0

A Russian officer rescues the wanted anarchist Vera Maretskaja. A romance arises between them, but the secret police arrests the officer in a restaurant and expels him to Siberia on charges of aiding the revolutionaries.

Erämaan turvissa

1931

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Kalle Kaarna and produced by Oy. Filmi Kotka, the documentary is a strongly charged propaganda film. It begins in the open fields of smoke "by the bleached bones of fallen clubmen" and presents the birthplaces of the Lapua movement with their monuments and key figures. The climax is the main celebration held in Helsinki's Senate Square on July 7, 1930, where the strongman of the Lapua movement, Vihtori Kosola, gives his speech.

Talonpoikaismarssi Helsinkiin 1930

1930

Seitsemän veljestä poster
7.0

Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.

Seitsemän veljestä

1939

Rakuuna Kalle Kollola poster
7.5

Cavalryman Kalle Kollola makes a fool of himself in order to get by with less service during his time in the army. Aunt Loviisa, who has come to see him, urges her witty but lazy cousin to straighten up. Aunt Loviisa also helps Miss Hilja Aro settle her differences with the horse master Kalpa.

Rakuuna Kalle Kollola

1939

No artwork available
6.0

Laikan Otto falls in love with a fair-haired beauty at the market, who later turns out to be Elina, daughter of the wealthy Orttenmaa family. The girl falls in love with Otto, but does not want to marry someone poorer than herself. The hurt man returns to his home village, where the sweet Anna Kervilä awaits him.

Kyläraittien kuningas

1945