Rukajärven tie (Ambush) (1999) - Olli Saarela

Runtime: 123 min Finland:117 min
Language: Finnish, Italian, Russian With Hard coded English Sub
Country: Finland Color
Director: Olli Saarela
Description:
It
is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the
border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for
orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon
mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for
possible Russian defensive positions. When the platoon rests in a newly
conquered village Lt. Perkola meets his fiancee Kaarina Vainikainen,
who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). The platoon
continues with the mission, but after some time a terrible message
reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become totally
indifferent to his and his platoon's safety during the remainder of the
mission...
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After Nazi
Germany attacked Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union demanded military
bases from Finland. Helsinki refused, whereupon the Red Army attacked
Finland in November 1939 in what is known as the Winter War. Using
skis, the Finnish army held back the Soviets for several months but
ultimately surrendered, signing a treaty of peace in March 1940 that
gave up Eastern Karelia, whereupon some 420,000 Karelians fled to
western Finland. In 1941 Finland allied with Germany, and while the
Reischswehr invaded the Soviet Union, Finland advanced in midsummer
1941 to recover the territory previously lost in Eastern Karelia.
Ambush, directed by Olli Saarela, is the story of one episode in what
Finland calls the Continuation War. At the beginning of the film
begins, Lt. Eero Perkola (played by Peter Franzén) receives an order to
lead his platoon to Repola, a military encampment where he fortuitously
encounters his girlfriend Kaarina Vainikainen (played by Irina
Björklund), a member of the Auxiliaries who are attending to the men in
uniform and the casualties. He then asks the commanding officer of the
base to evacuate the women in case of a future Soviet attack. The
commander agrees, but he then presses Eero to volunteer to lead his
platoon to hold a riverbed at Koroly, indicating that he has incomplete
intelligence regarding where Soviet troops are, a military situation
familiar to those who have recently seen We Were Brothers. Eero and
Kaarina then part in opposite directions. Tuomas Kantelinen's music, a
cross between Sibelius and Tschaikovky, already tells us that tragedy
lies ahead. En route, a group of Soviet Partisans ambushes the caravan
of Auxiliaries. Although Kaarina is the only survivor, Eero is informed
that she died by a courier who delivers new orders -- to bicycle to
Koroly on a lake and then to report on locations of Soviet troops, if
any. Eero at first reflects on his lost girlfriend but soon leads his
men, though he dreams of Kaarina and sheds tears from time to time; a
sensitive young man in the beginning, he commands with increasing
brutality, presumably to avenge her death. Several men in Eero's unit
die as they proceed. Simo Kappinen (played by Tommi Eronen) trips,
demonstrating fear, and is sent back to Repola alone, but Partisans
shoot him dead along the way. Tapio Heikkinen (played by Petri
Manninen) fails to exercise caution when he is warned that an abandoned
house may be boobytrapped. Corporal Jussi Lukkari (played by Kari
Heiskanen) shoots two prisoners, Partisans who were left for dead,
provoking Sergeant Unto Saarinen (played by Taisto Reimaluoto) to
complain to Eero that the executions were immoral. Eero then sends
Saarinen forward as a scout along a bridge, but enemy soldiers open
fire, and Saarinen is shot, presumably falling into a watery grave,
though he appears alive later. After the platoon reaches Koroly, having
encountered little resistance, Eero is ordered to lead his men to join
the Finnish Army at Virta; to do so, they must fight through the rear
of enemy lines. Many die, but Ville Snicker (played by Arttu
Kapulainen) dies while covering the survivors with a machine gun as
Eero leads them in swimming across the lake to join the Finnish Army.
In the battle Eero is hit and is momentarily unconscious, so when his
unit reaches safety, he is transferred to a makeshift hospital, where
he encounters Kaarina, also a survivor, and the film ends as they
embrace. With a minimum of actual violence, Ambush is almost an antiwar
film, demonstrating through the conflict between Lukkari and Saarinen
the way in which war can turn young men into savages, separating those
who are mentally ill equipped from those who become obsessively
vicious, with most somewhere on the scale between. The film is based on
Life for Fatherland, a novel by Antti Tuuri, who cowrote the screenplay
along with director Olli Saarela.
Cast:
Peter Franzén ... Lieutenant Eero Perkola
Irina Björklund ... Lotta Kaarina Vainikainen
Kari Heiskanen ... Lance Corporal Jussi Lukkari
Taisto Reimaluoto ... Corporal Unto Saarinen
Kari Väänänen ... Corporal Tauno Snicker
Tommi Eronen ... Private Simo Karppinen
Pekka Heikkinen ... Corporal Evert Rönkkö
Pekka Huotari ... Private Martti Raassina
Tero Jartti ... Private Moilanen
Rauno Juvonen ... Private Hämäläinen
Arttu Kapulainen ... Private Ville Snicker
Matti Laitinen ... Private Knihti
Petri Manninen ... Private Ahti Heikkinen
Kristo Salminen ... Private Kukkonen
Kari-Pekka Toivonen ... Private Leinonen


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