キーワード Continuation War

1941年、前年にソ連との“冬戦争”に破れ、領土の一部を失ったフィンランドはソ連から領土を取り戻すためにソ連に進攻、“継続戦争”が勃発する。この戦争でフィンランドは400万の人口に対して50万の軍隊を組織、強大なソ連軍に歩兵中心の戦いを挑む。そんな中、それぞれ異なった背景を持つ4人の兵士たちは最前線で苛烈な戦闘に身を投じる。たとえ戦場で息絶えたとしても戦士たちの生きた証はそれぞれの家族に、そして大地に確実に刻まれていく…。

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.

The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.