
Premiere
23
Dec1955
Studio
About
Synopsis
The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas, 1955) — watch online on iFILM. Finnish director Edvin Laine adapted Väinö Linna's landmark novel just a year after it was published, and the result became the defining war film of Nordic cinema.
Summer 1941. A Finnish machine-gun company moves east toward the Soviet front. Laine follows a squad of ordinary men — not glory-seekers, but tired, quarrelsome soldiers who joke and grumble while the shooting gets closer. Several of them will not come home.
Linna's novel was an immediate cultural touchstone, and this film carried its blunt, soldier's-eye view of the Continuation War to a wider audience. At 181 minutes it earns every one of them. Stream The Unknown Soldier online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring

Kosti Klemelä
Koskela

Heikki Savolainen
Hietanen

Reino Tolvanen
Rokka

Veikko Sinisalo
Lahtinen

Åke Lindman
Lehto

Pentti Siimes
Määttä

Leo Riuttu
Vanhala

Kaarlo Halttunen
Rahikainen
Matti Ranin
Kariluoto

Jussi Jurkka
Lammio

Tauno Palo
Sarastie

Pentti Irjala
Kaarna

Vilho Siivola
Mäkilä
Martti Romppanen
Sihvonen

Tapio Hämäläinen
Salo

Olavi Ahonen
Riitaoja
Tarmo Manni
Honkajoki
Veli-Matti Kaitala
Hauhia
Kale Teuronen
Susi

Vili Auvinen
Asumaniemi

Edvin Laine
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