In Finland, a WWII film epic spurs praise, introspection
In a Russian city overrun by Finnish forces, a beautiful Russian girl surprises her conquerors by bursting into dance, then proceeds to seduce one of the Finns.
A flotilla of Finnish assault boats, guns blazing, move in perfect unison across a Karelian river as Russian artillery bursts around them.
A Finnish sergeant, at the end of his tether after three years of combat, methodically mows down an entire company of Russian ski soldiers with his machine gun, eyes ablaze.
These are some of the scenes which have alternately beguiled, angered, and mesmerized the hundreds of thousands of Finns who have
War and introspection‘I want Finns to think about their history’