Mother of Mine
Äideistä parhain
2005, Film, 111 min, Drama, War, Finnish, Finland, MoviePedia score 68
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.
Directed by Klaus Härö
Cast
- Topi Majaniemi as Eero Lahti
- Marjaana Maijala as Kirsti Lahti - Eeron äiti
- Maria Lundqvist as Signe Jönsson - äiti Ruotsissa
- Michael Nyqvist as Hjalmar Jönsson - isä Ruotsissa
- Esko Salminen as Eero Lahti - nykyaika
- Aino-Maija Tikkanen as Kirsti Lahti - nykyaika
- Kari-Pekka Toivonen as Lauri - Eeron isä
- Brasse Brännström as Isoisä Ruotsissa
- Penny Elvira Loftéen as Siv - naapurintyttö
- Ia Langhammer as Anna
More like this
- The Unknown Soldier (1985)
- Ambush (1999)
- The Winter War (1989)
- The Boy in the Woods (2023)
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
- Devotion (2022)
- The Monuments Men (2014)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Operation Mincemeat (2021)
- Hope and Glory (1987)
- The War (1994)