Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Topi Majaniemi | ... | Eero Lahti |
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Marjaana Maijala | ... | Kirsti Lahti - Eeron äiti |
Maria Lundqvist | ... | Signe Jönsson - äiti Ruotsissa | |
Michael Nyqvist | ... | Hjalmar Jönsson - isä Ruotsissa | |
Esko Salminen | ... | Eero Lahti - nykyaika | |
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Aino-Maija Tikkanen | ... | Kirsti Lahti - nykyaika |
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Kari-Pekka Toivonen | ... | Lauri - Eeron isä |
Brasse Brännström | ... | Isoisä Ruotsissa | |
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Penny Elvira Loftéen | ... | Siv - naapurintyttö |
Ia Langhammer | ... | Anna | |
Leif Andrée | ... | Gunnar | |
Marie Göranzon | ... | Rouva Grevnäs | |
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Åsa Persson | ... | Opettajatar |
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Gustav Wiklund | ... | Pappi |
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Patrick Henriksen | ... | Tuomas - kotiavustaja |
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies. Written by Anonymous
Haven't been so totally blown away by a movie for quite a while - it's rare in Hong Kong that all the 5 audience in the cinema all ended up soaking in tears - if that didn't tell you enough about the movie..
There were movies, like the Dutch movie Simon, that tried to capture the subtle dynamics among fathers and sons, or the Canadian one, Barbarian Invasion. This movie, however, has yet overrode those movies by its subtle but yet delicately constructed interplay among father, mother and the son. More so it touched so much upon young man's hope and tie with the mother. Just when you think that was the whole thing about the movie (i.e. mother and son, anti-war wake-up call), the movie got brilliantly galvanized by the two women in how they dealt with themselves and the motherhood, and what they wanted, adding a potent twist to the narrative as well as gently tweaking the emotions of the audience.
For such a long time there was no movies that was able to employ such a basic and simple setting but yet so able to capture the multi-faceted humanities in such an embedded, compiling way.
Highly recommend this movie.