Matti Ijäs — Playwright (7)
White Lies (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pieniä valheita
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Vesa Vierikko / Pirjo Lankinen
other title: Pieniä valheita
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Blindfolded (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sokkotanssi
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Martti Suosalo / Walter Gröhn
other title: Sokkotanssi / El baile a ciegas
Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Gotta Run! (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ajolähtö
other title: Ajolähtö
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm but wants to break free from his father who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies and, together with drifter Late, take a job in a steel mill in southern Finland.
Things We Do for Love (2013) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kaikella rakkaudella
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Sampo Sarkola / Krista Kosonen
other title: In aller Liebe / 為愛做的一切
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.