5 Films & TV Shows Set In Finland During The 1930s
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The Eternal Road
🇷🇺 Russia 🇫🇮 Finland The 1930sFreedom lies beyond heaven and hell — Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
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Flight North
🇫🇮 Finland The 1930sJohanna (Katharina Thalbach) has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
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Inspector Palmu's Error
🇫🇮 Finland The 1930sA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
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G.P.U.
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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Ski Patrol
🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sIn 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.