Angela's War

Synopsis

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the end of the war. Finland had formed a brief alliance with Germany to fight an invading Russia in the winter of 1939, but when the Russians won that battle and took more than 16,000 square miles of land away from Finland, it was too late to successfully rout the Germans from Finnish soil. So for the entire war, the Finns were fighting Germany on their own national territory -- which makes the love affair between a Finnish nurse and German soldier a very complex issue. While Angela receives different reactions from her friends, acquaintances, and relatives, she continues on with her love for the German, against odds which are greater as time goes by.

Main Cast

Ida-Lotta Backman

Angela Anders

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Mathieu Carrière

Thomas Schmidt

Age : N/A | Popularity : 94%

Jörn Donner

Gabriel

Age : 86 | Popularity : 12%

Erland Josephson

Anton Goldberg

Age : 88 | Popularity : 31%

Matti Oravisto

Professor

Age : 80 | Popularity : 3%

Birgitta Ulfsson

Karin Berggren

Age : 89 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Jörn Donner Eija-Elina Bergholm
Sound	Music	Esa Helasvuo
	Production Sound Mixer	Paul Jyrälä
Camera	Director of Photography	Kari Sohlberg
Directing	Director	Eija-Elina Bergholm
Art	Production Design	Pertti Hilkamo
Department	Role	Name

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