25 vuotta Suomen itsenäisyyttä

25 Years of Finnish Independence. FI 1942. PC: Valtion tiedotuslaitos. D: Topo Leistelä. M: Nils-Eric Fougstedt. Film Control: A-1725, 4.12.1942 – 400 m / 14´37". From a scratched master. Swedish subtitles. Betacam, alas. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 28 Sep 2005. The official history of independent Finland focuses on the presidents: there is (even rare/unique?) footage of Mannerheim, Ståhlberg, Svinhufvud, Kallio, Relander, Ryti. Marches celebrating the 1918 war, building the Parliament house, an industrial montage (streams, power stations, the great SOK cooperative), building the Olympic stadium. Finland, the outpost of the West in the North. The Winter war. The funeral of President Kallio. The declaration of war by Ryti. Epic views of the devastation of the war and harvesting the crops, to the impressive music by Fougstedt.