Äideistä parhain [videorecording / MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy Tuotanto ... Omegafilms AB ... Film i Skane AB ; käsikirjoitus, Jimmy Karlsson & Kirsi Vikman ; tuottaja, Ilkka Matila ; ohjaaja, Klaus Härö.
Format:
[videorecording /
Publisher:
Film Movement,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on a screenplay by Veikko Aaltonen and a novel by Heikki Hietamies. Maria Lundqvist, Michael Nyqvist, Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maïjala, Esko Salminen, Brasse Brǎnnström, Aino-Maija Tikkanen, Kari-Pekka Toivonen. Videodisc release of the 2005 motion picture. Special features: short film "Uncle" / directed by Adam Elliot (6 min.).
Summary:
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies. The short film Uncle is a biography of a humble man, retold by an anonymous nephew, who strings together a collection of his uncle's passions, failings and beliefs.
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