Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)

Original title

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Directed by

Edvin Laine

Genre

drama film

Country

Finland

Runtime

3h 06m

Rated

K-12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a rural Finnish family through social and political upheaval in the early 1900s. It covers their struggles with land ownership and national conflicts.

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What happens

Here, Beneath the North Star (Under the Northern Star in the US release; Finnish: Täällä Pohjantähden alla) is a 1968 Finnish drama film directed by Edvin Laine. The film is based on the first two volumes of Väinö Linna's novel trilogy Under the North Star. The third volume was adapted into a film two years later under the title Akseli and Elina. With a budget of approximately FIM 2.6 million (approximately $500,000), the film was one of the most expensive Finnish films of its time, and one of the first in which the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) participated in the production costs. The film was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival in 1969. The film was first released in the United States in September 1973; at the time, Paul Gardner of The New York Times described the film as "a Finnish version of Gone with the Wind". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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