The Eternal Road (2017) on Netflix
Jussi Ketola returns with his family to Finland from Depression-era America. The nationalist Lapua Movement takes him, a socialist and pacifist, for a Red and seizes him from his home.
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Plot summary
Jussi Ketola is a Finnish emigrant who left the United States during the Great Depression and brought his family home to Finland. The country is still sharply split after the Finnish civil war of 1917, when the anti-communist Whites defeated the communist Reds. Jussi, a socialist and a pacifist, wants only to get back to his family, but he has drawn the suspicion of the Lapua Movement, whose right-wing nationalists take him for a Red. One night they seize him from his house, beat him, and force him to walk the Eternal Road, the route toward the border of Soviet Russia.
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- Eeti Salovuorias Pauli
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Eternal Road (2017)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Eternal Road was the last film Lembit Ulfsak acted in; the actor died on 22 March 2017, so it stands as his final screen role.
- The film was shot and edited in Estonia instead of on location in Karelia, the region the Karelian locations were meant to stand for.
- The Eternal Road's thirteen nominations were the greatest number at that year's Jussi Awards, and Kalju Kivi became the first Estonian in the awards' history to win.
