The Eternal Road
Ikitie
2017, Film, 103 min, Drama, History, Finnish, Finland, MoviePedia score 66
Freedom lies beyond heaven and hell
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.
Directed by Antti-Jussi Annila
Cast
- Tommi Korpela as Jussi Ketola
- Sidse Babett Knudsen as Sara
- Hannu-Pekka Björkman as Kallonen
- Irina Björklund as Sofia
- Sampo Sarkola as Strang
- Ville Virtanen as John Hill
- Jonna Järnefelt as Ella
- Eedit Patrakka as Mary, 8
- Rosa Salomaa as Mary, 14
- Helén Söderqvist Henriksson as Martta Hill
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