The Eternal Road

The Eternal Road is a 2017 drama film, based on a novel by Antti Tuuri, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by Antti-Jussi Annila and stars Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund and Ville Virtanen. The movie is about American Finn immigrants in the Soviet Union and their fate in Stalin's persecutions in the late 1930s. The film was edited and shot in Estonia in lieu of locations in Karelia. This was also the last film Lembit Ulfsak acted in before his death on 22 March 2017. Plot 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. Cast Tommi Korpela as Jussi Ketola Sidse Babett Knudsen as Sara Ketola Hannu-Pekka Björkman as Kallonen Irina Björklund as Sofia Ville Virtanen as John Hill Helen Söderqvist as Martta Hill Lembit Ulfsak as Novikov