The Eternal Road
Local title
Igitee
Original title
Ikitie
Director
Antti-Jussi Annila
Country
Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Year
2017
One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.
Jussi Ketola, a Finnish man, returns from America trying to escape from the Great Depression. He finds his country in great political turmoil. One night, Ketola is abducted from his home by nationalists and is forced to walk the Eternal Road towards Soviet Russia. He finds himself in a kolkhoz founded by American Finns who have escaped the Great Depression into the USSR. But the Stalin's persecutions are at the doorstep.
Director
Antti-Jussi Annila
Screenwriter
Tom Abrams, Antti-Jussi Annila, Aku Louhimies
Cast
Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund, Sampo Sarkola, Ville Virtanen
Producer
Gunnar Carlsson, Mikko Leino, Ilkka Matila, Simon Perry, Martin Persson, Kristian Taska, Ari Tolppane
Cinematographer
Rauno Ronkainen
Production Design
Kalju Kivi
Editing
Tambet Tasuja
Music
Panu Aaltio, Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm, Ian Person
Production
Matila Röhr Productions (MRP) (main producer company) Taska Film (co-production) Anagram (co-production) Film i Väst (co-production)
World sales
Forum Cinemas, Nordisk Film, Nordisk Film, Taeyang Media Group, Taska Film
Distribution
Forum Cinemas, Nordisk Film, Nordisk Film, Taeyang Media Group, Taska Film
Runtime
Language
English, Finnish, Russian
Subtitles
English
Director
Antti-Jussi Annila
Jadesoturi (Igavese armastuse sõdalane, PÖFF 2006), Sauna (2008), Ikitie (Igitee, PÖFF 2017)
Trailer
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