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Director:
Writers:
Olli Saarela (writer)
Antti Tuuri (novel)
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Release Date:
22 January 1999 (Finland) more
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Plot:
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt... more | add synopsis
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11 wins & 5 nominations more
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Cast

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Peter Franzén ... Lieutenant Eero Perkola

Irina Björklund ... Lotta Kaarina Vainikainen
Kari Heiskanen ... Lance Corporal Jussi Lukkari
Taisto Reimaluoto ... Corporal Unto Saarinen
Kari Väänänen ... Corporal Tauno Snicker
Tommi Eronen ... Private Simo Karppinen
Pekka Heikkinen ... Corporal Evert Rönkkö
Pekka Huotari ... Private Martti Raassina
Tero Jartti ... Private Moilanen
Rauno Juvonen ... Private Hämäläinen
Arttu Kapulainen ... Private Ville Snicker
Matti Laitinen ... Private Knihti
Petri Manninen ... Private Ahti Heikkinen
Kristo Salminen ... Private Kukkonen
Kari-Pekka Toivonen ... Private Leinonen
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ambush (USA)
Vägen till Rukajärvi (Finland: Swedish title)
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Runtime:
123 min
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The movie is loosely based on a book by Antti Tuuri, a true war story. The script was altered a lot from the original book, though, removing it slightly further from true events. more
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An artistic war movie, 11 February 1999
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Author: Klovni from Jyväskylä, Finland

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.

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