The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)
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The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas, Swedish: Okänd soldat) is a Finnish war film directed by Edvin Laine that premiered in December 1955. It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers.
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Directed by | Edvin Laine |
Written by | Juha Nevalainen Väinö Linna |
Based on | The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna |
Produced by | T. J. Särkkä |
Starring | Kosti Klemelä Heikki Savolainen Reino Tolvanen |
Distributed by | Suomen Filmiteollisuus |
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Running time | 177 minutes[1] |
Country | Finland |
Language | Finnish |
Budget | FIM 46 million[1] |
Box office | FIM 200 million[1] |
The film was and remains the most successful movie ever in Finland; about 2.8 million people, or more than half the Finnish population, saw it in theaters.[1][2] Its portrayal of Linna's characters is widely accepted as canonical. The film was voted the best Finnish movie by 1213 respondents in an Internet poll by Helsingin Sanomat in 2007.[3][4]
The novel would be filmed again in 1985 by Rauni Mollberg and again in 2017 by Aku Louhimies.