Syvälle salattu (2011)

Actors: Risto Aaltonen (actor), Kari Hietalahti (actor), Peter Franzén (actor), Kai Lehtinen (actor), Olli Soinio (miscellaneous crew), Marko Röhr (producer), Susan Heiskanen (miscellaneous crew), Joona Tena (writer), Panu Aaltio (composer), Joona Tena (director), Krista Kosonen (actress), Terhi Panula (actress), Tapani Launonen (miscellaneous crew), Ilkka Villi (actor), Pentti Korhonen (actor),

Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Tuntematon sotilas (2009)

Actors: Meri Nenonen (actress), Väinö Linna (writer), Timo Tuominen (actor), Markku Maalismaa (actor), Kristo Salminen (actor), Markku Maalismaa (actor), Jussi Nikkilä (actor), Anna-Maija Eräkangas (producer), Mikko Kuparinen (director), Juha Varis (actor), Antti Luusuaniemi (actor), Antti Pääkkönen (actor), Jaakko Kytömaa (actor), Esa-Matti Pölhö (actor), Henry Hanikka (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,
Taglines: Tv-version of the celebrated theatre play by Kristian Smeds

Tuntematon sotilas (1985)

Actors: Rauni Mollberg (director), Olli Soinio (editor), Risto Salmi (actor), Hannu Kivioja (actor), Rauni Mollberg (writer), Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (actor), Kari Väänänen (actor), Rauni Mollberg (producer), Heikki Valpola (composer), Veikko Aaltonen (writer), Martti Kainulainen (actor), Pertti Koivula (actor), Paavo Liski (actor), Pauli Poranen (actor), Ilkka Järvi-Laturi (actor),

Plot: This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). The film tells the story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war. Many of the caracters are based on author Linna's brothers in arms.

Keywords: army-life, autumn, based-on-novel, blind-man, blood, bomb, combat, continuation-war, female-nudity, finland
Genres: Drama, War,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Corporal: The childhood plays are over now, recruit!

Corporal: Here you don't smile! If someone can afford to smile in his civilian life, he must remember that here it is not allowed to neigh like a horse!

Viirilä: I was in jail last night. My old man was drunk when he came back from the Winter War. On the following day he went to work having a terrible hangover. I was drunk too when I came here. And I'm also having a hangover now that I'm about to start the warfare.

Rahikainen: [Hietanen has been promoted to petty officer] Well, Hietanen. Have you managed to get some pussy when you've been on vacation. Women, they like officers. I'm sure that they wet their paint right away, when they saw your stripes.::Hietanen: You can never be silent of that one God damn thing that is allways on your mind. You're such a strange fellow, Rahikainen. If we survive alive from this war I will take you to our neighbourhood where you can act our bull.

Vuorela: I need new boots.::Mäkilä: I'm in a hurry. I ain't got any time to give you any boots!::Hietanen: Give Vuorela new boots right away! That's captain's order!::Mäkilä: Captain is giving orders like we'd be in America where they have equipments and supplies more than they need! You are allways asking captain to give you what you are begging for!::Hietanen: Bloody hell! I never start to wonder how someone can love rags an cloths so much like you. Some boys love pretty girls. That is something that I understand. But rags and cloths! That so hard to swallow!

Kariluoto: We'll go far! To the outer limits of our dreams! How many distorded smiles others have smiled to those dreams!::Lammio: I haven't smile!::Kariluoto: But many people have! We are the generation who will change the way how the history is made.

Karjula: Where are you going, private!::Viirilä: I'm going to Inari, to fuck with wolves.

Rahikainen: [kicking the helmet of a dead Russian soldier] Hello there! Tell me if it's cold in the Russian hell!

Korpela: [the Finnish Army is retreating] I want you to arranged me a transfer to another unit!::Lammio: [confussed] What on earth? Which unit you are talking about?::Korpela: I'm willing to go to the ass of the world as long as I don't have to look at your face.

Lammio: [soldiers are whining about the food] If you don't like the food, you don't have to eat it. That is no compulsion.

Tuntematon sotilas (1955)

Actors: Jussi Jurkka (actor), Åke Lindman (actor), Mikko Niskanen (actor), Olavi Ahonen (actor), Matti Kuusla (actor), Aarne Laine (actor), Arvo Kuusla (actor), Tarmo Manni (actor), Tapio Hämäläinen (actor), Kaarlo Halttunen (actor), Eino Kaipainen (actor), Pentti Irjala (actor), Kalevi Kahra (actor), Tauno Palo (actor), Pertti Palo (actor),

Plot: It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.

Keywords: air-raid, army, army-life, backwoods, based-on-novel, black-humor, bleeding-from-eyes, blind-man, bombing, boots
Genres: Drama, War,

Quotes:

Asumaniemi: [when being shot in the chest] It's on the left... The heart is on the left side!

Lehto: You fucking bastard! What are you making faces for?::Riitaoja: I'm not making faces, Corporal Sir!::Lehto: Corporal Sir! Corporal Sir! You won't get away with me by calling me 'Sir'!

Hietanen: [Mäkilä gives a salted herring to Hietanen suffering from hangover] Thanks! I will manage the next half a year with this!

Koskela: Koskela from Finland: he eats iron and shits chain!

Veera: [the Finnish soldiers have just invaded Petrozavodsk] Why did you come here? Why didn't you let us be alone?

[last lines]::Vanhala: The Soviet Union won the war but the little and tough Finland became second.

Hauhia: How does it feel to shoot a human-being?::Rokka: I don't know. I have only shoot the enemies.::Hauhia: Aren't they human-beings?::Rokka: The wise men say that they aren't.

Lammio: What is your name?::Rokka: Rokka, Antero. I ain't got no second name.::Lammio: And what is you name?::Susi: Susi, Private Susi I am.