The Eternal Road

IMDb link: 4173170
IMDb rating: 7.1 (2,902 votes)
Genres: Drama, History
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tommi Korpela, Hannu-Pekka Bjorkman, Irina Björklund and others

Release date: 13 Jun 2020
Release year: 2017
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Keywords: stalin's purge, kolkhoz, 1930s, finnish american, soviet union, communism, kidnapping, family relationships, shot to death, mass murder

Plot:

Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

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