Rukajärven Tie is a different finnish war movie. Other finnish war movies like Edvin Laine´s "Tuntematon Sotilas" and Pekka Parikka´s "Talvisota" have concentrated in showing the two wars that Finland fought with Soviet Union during the second world war as a desperate fight of a nation that is struggling to stay independent. Rukajärven Tie isn´t about Finland or finnish people like the earlier finnish war movies. This kind of story could be placed to almost any war that has been fought during the last hundred years. It´s a story about what war can do to us humans. In photographical sense this film is magnificent. The most impressive scene in this film is the one that has the same setting as the Leonardo´s famous painting of the Lord´s Supper. This film has lots of symbolics in it and is a rewarding but not an easy film to watch.
Review of Rukajärven tie
