Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
Cinematography
Bleak Finnish landscapes that judge your soul.
Production
Massive period detail, from wooden shoes to white terror.
Acting
Aarno Sulkanen's Akseli: stoic suffering as art form.
Director
Edvin Laine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Väinö Linna's novel, considered Finland's national epic—this film IS their Gone With The Wind, but with more potatoes and less romance.
The Lapua movement depicted later influenced actual far-right Finnish politics; audiences in 1968 watched recent history become myth in real-time.
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