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It shows how the Finnish–Russian Winter War of 1939 influenced World War II and how Finland mobilized against the world's largest military power. Among the witnesses in the documentary is Eeva Kilpi , the Finnish feminist writer, who was a child in Karelia at the time.
On 1 August 2023, Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima, best known for the Metal Gear video game series, posted a message on Twitter in which he highly praised the Sisu film, saying: "This is no longer a war movie. It is a MAD grind of a battle between terribly cool men.
The Winter War (Finnish: Talvisota) is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka, and based on the novel Talvisota by Antti Tuuri. It is set in the 1939 Winter War and tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment from Southern Ostrobothnia fighting on the Karelian Isthmus , focusing mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava .
The Border (Finnish: Raja 1918, Russian: Граница 1918, romanized: Granitsa 1918) is a 2007 Finnish-Russian war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen.Set in the spring of 1918, right after the Finnish Civil War, the film is about a Finnish officer who is sent to the village of Rajajoki to form a border between Finland and Soviet Russia.
The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
The Cuckoo (Russian: Кукушка, translit. Kukushka, Finnish: Käki) is a 2002 Russian war drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, who died autumn of 2021. [1] The Cuckoo takes place during World War II, and the action is seen from the opposing perspectives of a Soviet soldier and a Finnish soldier stranded together at a Sami woman's farmhouse. [2]
Russia has reiterated its warning to Finland and Sweden over joining NATO after the neighboring Nordic countries confirmed their intentions to join the military alliance.
Literally "Road of Rukajärvi", the film debuted on 22 January 1999 in Finland, after which it was released internationally. The film is based on a book written by Antti Tuuri and its leads are played by Peter Franzén as Lt. Eero Perkola and Irina Björklund as Kaarina Vainikainen, Lt. Perkola's love.