The Eternal Road – Nordic Film Festival
19:00
The Eternal Road / Ikitie
(FI – 2017)
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
1h 43 min – Drama – 16+
In the summer of 1930, Jussi Ketola returns to Finland from the USA, trying to escape the Great Depression. Instead of creating a bright future together with his family, Jussi is being harassed by the right-wing, anti-Communist Lapua Movement. He gets abducted from his home in the middle of the night and is taken to the eastern border to be killed by the nationalists but manages to escape to the Soviet Union.
In the Soviet Union, Jussi gets a new identity, a job at a collective farm and even a new wife. Together with American immigrants who have voluntarily arrived in the Soviet Republic of Karelia, he takes part in building a worker’s paradise. Stalin’s Secret Police however begins to harass and purge the Finnish immigrants. Jussi would rather take his own life than live in a hell-turned-paradise, but he is not allowed to die.
The Eternal Road is based on a novel by Antti Tuuri, and is a part of Finland 100 Programme.
English subtitles and free entrance.
