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

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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