The Winter War

Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Pekka Parikka

Status Released

Release Date 1989-11-30

Storyline

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.

"They held back the Russian Juggernaut in a frozen Hell!"