The Winter War

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon. A five-part television miniseries extension of Pekka Parikka's 1989 film of the same name.

• sibling relationship
• miniseries
• platoon
• farmer
• finland
• shell shock
• historical drama
• red army
• nsdap (nazi party)
• 1940s
• 1930s
• class system
• holy communion
• continuation war
• historical epic
• edited from film
• nazi occupation of poland