The Chalice of Blood (2022)
- Original title
- Verimalja
- Directed by
- Jarno Elonen
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- Finland
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
At the end of World War II, a Finnish sergeant in the German Waffen-SS searches for a Byzantine relic called the Chalice. The Soviet secret police threaten his mission.
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What happens
The Chalice of Blood (Finnish: Verimalja) is a 2022 Finnish independent war film directed, co-written and cinematographed by Jarno Elonen. It is set in the final years of World War II and tells the story of Finnish Sergeant Myllykoski, who, as part of the German Waffen-SS, sets out to search for the Byzantine Chalice while the Soviet NKVD threatens to complicate matters. The film was self-produced, and its director, Elonen, has previously directed, among others, the documentary The Name of The Game. The film's initiator and main screenwriter, Rintala, has refined his knowledge in the making of the film as a Master of Theology with a background in church and military history. The film premiered on 18 August 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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