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Angela's War (1984)

ALL 09/07/1984 (en) Romance, Drama 97 Min
  • Release
    09/07/1984
  • Production
    Jörn Donner Productions, SVT Drama
  • Rotten tomato
    20%
  • Original title
    Angelan sota
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

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  1. Ida-Lotta Backman

    Angela Anders

  2. Mathieu Carrière

    Thomas Schmidt

  3. Jörn Donner

    Gabriel

  4. Erland Josephson

    Anton Goldberg

  5. Matti Oravisto

    Professor

  6. Birgitta Ulfsson

    Karin Berggren

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Casts : 6 , Crews : 7

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Angela's War (1984) 97 Min

ALL 09/07/1984 (en)
Romance, Drama
  • Release 09/07/1984
  • Production
    Jörn Donner Productions, SVT Drama
  • Original title Angelan sota
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Eija-Elina Bergholm

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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