The Unknown Soldier is a 2017 Finnish independent war drama film, an adaptation of the bestselling 1954 Finnish classic novel of the same name by Väinö Linna, literature considered part of the nationa
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Eero Aho as Antero "Antti" Rokka
Jussi Vatanen as Vilho Koskela
Natural lighting was used in the film to enhance realism.
Lapland War
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During World War II, the Lapland War saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany – effectively from September to November 1944 – in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. Though the Finns and the G
The Unknown Soldier (2017 film)
…Lapland War has nothing to do with Linna's story, but instead is based on the 2012 novel The Iron Boot (Rauta-antura) by Antti Tuuri, which is set in the Lapland War that followed the Continuation War. Finnish literature…
A sign which the Germans left in Muonio, Lapland, written on it: 'As thanks for not demonstrating brotherhood in arms!'
A view in 2007 to the south-east from Sturmbock-Stellung, a fortified German position in Finland 100 km (62 mi) from Norway
Operations Birke and Nordlicht, the German withdrawal from Finland from 6 September 1944 to 30 January 1945
Gebirgsjäger of the XVIII Mountain Corps attacking behind Panzer cover in 1942 when Finland and Germany were still at war with the USSR together