Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
Acting
Reimaluoto's gentle giant energy breaks your heart.
Cinematography
Finnish landscapes as impending doom.
Writing
Sparse dialogue, heavy with unspoken class tension.
Director
Tero Jartti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Finnish Civil War (1918) remains a national wound—this film refuses to take sides, focusing on those crushed between them.
Director Tero Jartti vanished from cinema after this; Aapo became his accidental elegy to himself.
FI
