The Eternal Road
Freedom lies beyond heaven and hell
Directed by Antti-Jussi Annila
Produced by Taska Film, MRP Matila Röhr Productions
A harrowing historical drama about political violence and forced displacement during Finland's turbulent 1930s, anchored by one man's desperate struggle to survive and return home.
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.
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