'Over The Border'
Yli rajan (Över gränsen)
Oltre la frontiera (Italian title)
Over Grænsen (Danish title)
Über die Grenze (German title), A travers la frontière (French title)

Finland 1942 B/W 80min Suomi-Filmi Oy

**½

War

cast: Joel Rinne (Mikko Vanhala), Irma Seikkula (Eliisa Raaska), Wilho Ilmari (Her father), Emma Väänänen, Ilmari Unho (priest)
credits: dir. Wilho Ilmari

Mikko and Eliisa are in love, but the border is between them. There's war going on and Mikko wants to save Eliisa. Eliisa's father must also bring over the border, but it's hard. Eliisa's father is crippled.

Powerful drama, but so gloomy that it makes one sick.

TRIVIA: This film got a prize in Venice. It was the first time when a Finnish film got a prize there.

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