The Eternal Road (2017)

Original title

Ikitie

Directed by

Antti-Jussi Annila

Genre

drama film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

K-16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American Finn immigrant travels to the Soviet Union during the late 1930s and gets caught up in Stalin's persecutions. The story follows his struggle to survive under a repressive regime.

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What happens

The Eternal Road (Finnish: Ikitie) is a 2017 drama film, based on a novel by Antti Tuuri, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by Antti-Jussi Annila and stars Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund and Ville Virtanen. The movie is about American Finn immigrants in the Soviet Union and their fate in Stalin's persecutions in the late 1930s. The film was edited and shot in Estonia in lieu of locations in Karelia. This was also the last film Lembit Ulfsak acted in before his death on 22 March 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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