Tom of Finland (2017)

Directed by

Dome Karukoski

Genre

drama film, biographical film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 140 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The movie follows Touko Laaksonen, a Finnish artist who created iconic homoerotic drawings. It shows his life and the struggle to express his identity and art in a repressive society.

biographicaldramaticrestrainedreflectiveintimateearnestperiodunderstated

What happens

Tom of Finland is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy. It stars Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, a Finnish homoerotic artist. Tom of Finland premiered on 27 January 2017 at Gothenburg Film Festival and was released theatrically in Finland on 24 February 2017. It was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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