Unknown Soldier

Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas, 2017) is a Finnish war epic you can watch online on iFILM. Director Aku Louhimies adapted Väinö Linna's landmark novel — the book Finns call their national epic — into a three-hour film that stays close to the mud.

The story follows a machine gun company through the Continuation War, from the summer push into Karelia in 1941 to the final collapse three years later. Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen and Jussi Vatanen lead an ensemble cast with no single hero — just a company of men who signed up for what they thought would be a short campaign and are still there when the world changes around them. Louhimies shoots the battles with enough chaos to feel real and enough space between them to let the exhaustion accumulate.

Finland submitted the film as its Oscar entry that year, and it holds up as one of the strongest European war dramas of the decade. Stream Unknown Soldier (2017) on iFILM.