Aho & Soldan

Eastern Finland in 18th century. Farmer Juha has raised an orphan girl Marja and married her. Karelian trader Shemeikka visits the farm and starts to make advances to young and beautiful Marja, tempting her to run away with him.

A documentary short on logging during winter season.

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

Björn Soldan descended with a camera into the Outokumpu copper mine in the winter of 1933. The miners' working day at a depth of one hundred meters is hard, but at lunch they smile.