Silence
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sakari Kirjavainen
Lauri Tilkanen
Joanna Haartt
Joonas Saartamo
Terhi Suorlaht
Alf Hemming
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
It is the Second World War. In Finland at the Russian front is an evacuation center where dead soldiers are gathered to be sent home. Eino is the dim-witted son of a man whose job is to wash the dead bodies. Eino joins the war with his simple soul full of heroic ideals. Life in the small community turns out to be more complicated than the war itself and the evacuation center is spiced up by the characters that run it; Chaplain Hiltunen, crazy about his numbers and charts; Korpikangas, a former medical student straight from a mental institution; Miina, an old cupper woman; and two young female volunteers, Jaana with a hard shell and Siiri with an open heart. Most important to Eino, however, is his lifelong friend Antti, for whom his father has arranged an innocuous job at the center. Antti is a charming rogue who who tricks Eino into doing all his work while he himself concentrates on wooing the ladies and trading illegally across the front line.
