The Midwife

The Midwife

2015 · 119 min · FI · 5.7 (26 votes)
Dir. Antti J. Jokinen · Starring Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Leea Klemola, Tommi Korpela, Seppo Pääkkönen · Music Pessi Levanto

A midwife's forbidden love story... separated by war, joined by love at first sight.

DramaWarRomance

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

VIBE

A sweeping, yet intimate, wartime romance. It's a somber, melancholic journey through love and loss against the brutal backdrop of conflict, feeling both grand and deeply personal.

melancholicromantictensesomberslow-burnperiod dramaarthousewartime realismlovewarsacrificeloss
based on novel or bookworld war iimidwifelovenazi officer
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