THE FINNISH CIVIL WAR OF 1918 AND CINEMA

Toivo Särkkä: 1918 (1957). The White Guards have turned the Suomenlinna sea fortress into a prison camp for the Reds. A little girl (Merja Linko) brings secretly a piece of bread to her father.

90 years have passed since the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as serious for Finland as the U.S. Civil War for Americans. Fiction films include: Dreyer: Blade af Satans Bog (1921), Pakkala: Sotapolulla (1921), Molander: En natt / Serments (1931), Särkkä: 1918 - mies ja hänen omatuntonsa (1957), Laine: Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968), Pennanen: Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973), Honkasalo & Lehto: Tulipää (1980), Jartti: Aapo (1994), Saarela: Lunastus (1997), and Törhönen: Raja 1918 (2007).