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Release Date:
7 December 2007 (Finland) moreAwards:
4 nominations moreUser Comments:
A Monument, created to be as it should stand moreCast
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Also Known As:
Slaget om Finland (Sweden) [sv]Tali-Ihantala - Slaget om Finland (Sweden) [sv]
Tali-Ihantala 1944 - Slaget om Finland (Sweden) [sv]
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Åke Lindman got seriously ill during the filming. He let co-writer Sakari Kirjavainen finish the picture. moreSoundtrack:
Oi kallis Suomenmaa moreFAQ
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Best thing about watching Tali-Ihantala is that you get to watch a different type of war movie after a while. The old school movie mandatorily adds women and children to plotwise useless roles to create the so called drama, but in Tali-Ihantala you get no Rambos, no cheese, no political ubercorrectness and nothing else but just war as it realistically should be, within production limitations of course.
The barrenness of no prolonged drama sequences and no main characters may strike some people as cinematographically unwise, but Tali-Ihantala is not the first war movie to use such a feature. Similar approach was used in "Thin Red Line" where there was no main characters either, but Tali-Ihantala tries not to be artsy and go too far. It comes close to a documentary but, in fact, it still is far from being a documentary.
Another film Tali-Ihantala is very close to is the "Longest Day", although the Soviet Union side is only shown as the enemy and only Finns will have any dialogue. The strenghts of the movie include fact that every main character has a historical counterpart, and a lot of authentic equipment was used in the making. The weaknesses are the limited production resources but every actor seem to do his best regardless of how amateur he is.
It is a great film, more close to actual history than "Tuntematon Sotilas" if you just allow yourself to accept it.