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The Eternal Road

The Eternal Road

2017 · 103 min · FI · 7.0 (32 votes)
Dir. Antti-Jussi Annila · Starring Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund, Sampo Sarkola, Ville Virtanen · Music Ian Person

“Freedom lies beyond heaven and hell”

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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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A stark, unflinching look at one man's desperate journey through a brutal landscape. It's a somber, tense experience, heavy with the weight of history and the enduring human will to survive against overwhelming odds.

sombertenseresilientbleakslow-burnhistorical dramaperiod piecegritty realismdisplacementpolitical extremismfamilysurvival
immigrantbased on novel or bookgreat depression
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