It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history. Written by Peter Lagerstrom In 1941 Finland attacks the Soviet Union to regain the territory that the Soviet Union occupied during the winter war 1939-1940. Among the Finnish soldiers are Anttero, Wolf Paw, Koskela, Hietanen. They manage to come as far as Lake Onega before the losses become to great. Written by Mattias Thuresson {mattias.thuresson@mbox300.swipnet.se}
