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. –IMDB

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. –IMDB

Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa EI (1975) HDTV 1080p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 38mn
Size: 	5.35 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
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Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	7 169 Kbps
BPP: 	0.138
Audio
#1:  	Finnish 2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/5AD4C59C0CC0F70/Mies,_joka_ei_osannut_sanoa_EI_(1975)_HDTV_1080p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5AC36640C7DE9EC/Mies,_joka_ei_osannut_sanoa_EI_(1975)_HDTV_1080p.ass.txt

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English

The post Risto Jarva – The Man Who Couldn’t Say No AKA Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa EI (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Markku Kuoppamäki wrote:
Magazine editor Jussi and his girlfriend Leena, an airline stewardess, share an apartment with Jussi’s sister Eeva. During a fashion shoot Jussi meets Telle, a professional model who has just returned to Helsinki after years in Paris. Looking for a place to stay, Telle gets Eeva’s room while Eeva goes to Stockholm for a few days. Jussi and Telle start an affair while still working on fashion features for the magazine.

DVD label: VLMedia
DVD9
DVD Format: PAL
DVD Audio: AC3 Mono
Program: DVD Decrypter
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: Untouched
Extras contain: Two documentaries about Risto Jarva, two short films by Jarva, presentation & filmography
DVD runtimes: 01:29:07 (main feature), 01:45:55 (extras)

https://nitro.download/view/75BBB856145DF25/Onnenpeli_(Risto_Jarva,_1965)_-_DVD.rar

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:Finnish, Swedish, English here

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Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture – “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. (She caused a public scandal by asking three of her wealthy, powerful lovers to pay for an abortion). Raimo finds Saara’s identical double – an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) — and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara’s life and death for TV. Director Jarva was one of Finland’s most acclaimed fiction filmmakers and documentarians before he was tragically killed in an auto accident returning from a screening in 1977. His fabulously quirky vision of Future World, with its fragmented & abstract political conversation and semi-orgies (all waving hands and sitar music!) would have delighted both Andy Warhol and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Time.of.Roses.1969.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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#1:  	Finnish 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by film critic, professor and programmer Olaf Möller)

https://nitro.download/view/BA9FC638B76AC30/A.Time.of.Roses.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Finnish, English
Subtitles:English

The post Risto Jarva – Ruusujen aika AKA A Time of Roses (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
A psyhiotherapist’s life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

https://nitro.download/view/F27D182335C1154/Kun.taivas.putoaa.AKA.When.The.Heavens.Fall.1972.DVDRip.x264-TM.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/2702DE17F24D98D/Kun.taivas.putoaa.AKA.When.The.Heavens.Fall.1972.DVDRip.x264-TMv3.srt

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English

The post Risto Jarva – Kun taivas putoaa… AKA When The Heavens Fall… (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis: Taking place in the year 2012, the film is a fantasy of a “utopian” time when all class conflicts have been erased, at least superficially. A history researcher Raimo Lappalainen becomes obsessed by the life of nude model Saara Turunen, a woman who died in 1976, and tries to reconstruct it for TV, with help from an actress. At the same time a strike in a nuclear plant will lead to a violent upsurge, which media only manages to keep secret from public with a clever cover-up.

Trivia

– Ruusujen aika (“A Time of Roses”, 1969) is a rare example of Finnish science fiction cinema. The others were Aurinkotuuli by Timo Linnasalo (1980), Mika Kaurismäki’s Mad Max variation The Last Border (1993) and Jari Halonen’s Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (late 1990s).
– Originally the film was supposed to be filmed in colour and Cinemascope format, but due to the financial and technical problems this didn’t happen.
– The script is influenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo on which Peter von Bagh, one of the screenwriters, was writing his graduate thesis.
– The scene with the strike at a nuclear plant and the leader of strike (Kalle Holmberg) shot dead in front of TV cameras was filmed in the same day in August 1968 as Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Union troops.
– In the film, the future of the year 2012 has electronic newspapers. One of them, Uusi Suomi (ironically, in real life that newspaper went bankrupt in the 1980’s) has as its logo the upside down, split-in-the-middle “Y” symbol of the 1960’s peace movement!
– The most popular disco dance of 2012 — danced with sensual movements to the experimental electronic-sounding music — is called “pyllymylly” (free translation: “booty mill”).
– Erkki Kurenniemi, A Finnish tech whiz known for his ground-breaking electronic instruments and compositions, provided electronic sounds for this film.
– The use of mood-enhancing pills as means of maintaining the control of society is normal in the future of the film, made 25 years before the Prozac boom (though this idea can be found as early as 1930’s, with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World).
– Pekka Streng, the late Finnish folk/psychedelia artist appears as one of the extras of this film.
– For international distribution, a 20 minutes shorter version was cut, with a special introductory sequence.
– Actress Ritva Vepsä received Silver Asteroid award for the film at The Trieste Festival Of Science Fiction Films in 1969, and the film also won Special Prize at the same festival.
– The director Risto Jarva died in a car accident in 1977. Saara, the obsession of the protagonist Raimo Lappalainen (Arto Tuominen), had similar fate, according to the film, only one year earlier, 1976.

1.58GB | 1h 46m | 694×484 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BB10E131CF1F355/A.Time.of.Roses.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Finnish
Subtitles:English

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Following passages selectively translated from Risto Jarva Society’s website:

Risto Jarva was a central director in the Finnish New Wave. His career is one of the most extensive and important in the history of Finnish cinema, even though he died in a car accident at the age of 43.

Risto Jarva was a humanist and an engineer within one person. The focus of his work is on the human between society and nature. In his feature films and short documentaries he mapped dominant and alternative ways of life, without forgetting neither history nor the future. That’s why his movies are both subjective and objective evidence of the way Finland was in the years 1962-1977.

With Jarva the Finnish cinema found the colours of nature, young urban intellectuals, the worker, and a vision of the future. He searched for the possibility of love and companionship through play, humour and serious pondering. He studied the means of an individual surviving within the structures of capitalism and state bureaucracy. The topics of his movies are eternal: the tense relations between man and woman, individual and society, nature and technology – and how they can be solved.

The Diary of a Worker was Jarva’s breakthrough piece, “the first Finnish worker movie”, that started a fashion of tackling societal issues in films.

PLOT SYNOPSIS
Welder Juhani marries Ritva, an office worker with a rightist background. The day-to-day married life turns out to suffer from housing problems, money problems and long times apart. After there’s a serious accident at Juhani’s workplace, he get’s upset and seeks solace from another woman. At the same time, lonely Ritva starts suspecting something.

https://nitro.download/view/A01F8C3FD9ABD4F/The_Diary_of_a_Worker(1967).avi
https://nitro.download/view/A3429A0E9D40FD1/The_Diary_of_a_Worker(1967).srt

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English .srt

The post Risto Jarva – Työmiehen päiväkirja aka The Diary of a Worker (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.