2017 · drama · historical · war
The Eternal Road
Directed by Antti-Jussi Annila1h 43m2017
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Our read: The Eternal Road (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · historical · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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