The Midwife
Kätilö
Drama
Romance
War
A midwife's forbidden love story... separated by war, joined by love at first sight.
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
2015-09-04
fi
Cast
Director
Antti J. Jokinen
Krista Kosonen as Helena
Lauri Tilkanen as Johannes
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius as Jouni
Leea Klemola as Aune
Tommi Korpela as Gödel
Elina Knihtilä as Heta
Johannes Brotherus as Aleksei
Tiina Weckström as Haataja
Armi Toivanen as Kristiina Alatalo
Kaarina Hazard as Keskimölsän akka
Anneli Karppinen as Pöykön emäntä
Ida Giedraitė as Masha
Marius Repšys as Soldier in Tower