Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.
Acting
Minna Haapkylä's micro-expressions—every blink is a battlefield.
Direction
Donner strips war drama to two rooms and infinite moral gray.
Director
Jörn Donner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Finland's most infamous wartime spy case; Nuorteva was the first woman executed for treason in Finnish history, though this film fictionalizes her fate.
Director Jörn Donner was also a controversial politician and former MEP—his only fiction feature in a 50-year career of documentaries and provocations.
FI
