Finnish War Films

Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.

In the summer of 1944, reconnaissance soldier Jaakko returns to his family and his girlfriend Anna for a break from stress to his home village in Kainuu, which is protected by a military unit led by Sergeant Tolvanen from partisans. In the hometown, Jaakko's former childhood friend Janne is also around, but for what purpose?

Lieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A subplot alleges sexual liaisons between soldiers and female volunteers, which caused controversy when the film and the novel it's based on were released in the early 1960s.

Summer 1944 in Finnish Karelia; after a long lull, the Soviet army launches an overwhelming offensive that throws everything into disarray. Martta has barely time to marry Aarne before she is evacuated with relatives Hilkka, who has just given birth to a son, Helmi Elisa, the children, and their grandmother. In the confusion of the retreat, the women try to hold together and cross the paths of Aarne and Arttu, the only surviving brother of war-widow Helmi Elisa. Implacably, war takes its toll of suffering and death among civilians and soldiers.

The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.

A small finnish village gets occupied by the soviets in the fall of 1939. The villagers end up working together with the occupants, especially since the soviets have among them finnish speaking propaganda people.

Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.

This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). The film tells the story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war. Many of the characters are based on author Linna's brothers in arms.

The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.

November 1939. Stalin befiehlt den Angriff auf Finnland, an der Grenze marschieren 500.000 sowjetische Soldaten auf. Für das kleine Finnland beginnt der Kampf gegen einen übermächtigen Feind.

A story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus.

Im Sommer 1944 müssen die finnischen Streitkräfte Finnland gegen die eindringende Rote Armee verteidigen.

A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres near enemy lines. Silence is a story of a group of people in a limbo between life and death, and a mental no-man's-land, where Heaven and Hell, horror and joy, love and fear touch each other.

In the middle of the WW2, one soldier decides he is even with the army.