Angela's War

Angela's War (1984)


  • Genre: Romance, Drama
  • Release Date: 1984-09-07
  • User Rating: 2/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 37min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Jörn Donner Productions
  • Production Country: Germany, Finland, Sweden
  • Director: Eija-Elina Bergholm
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Summary

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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  • Ida-Lotta Backman

    as Angela Anders
  • Mathieu Carrière

    as Thomas Schmidt
  • Jörn Donner

    as Gabriel
  • Erland Josephson

    as Anton Goldberg
  • Matti Oravisto

    as Professor
  • Birgitta Ulfsson

    as Karin Berggren
Sound Paul Jyrälä Production Sound Mixer
Writing Eija-Elina Bergholm Writer
Sound Esa Helasvuo Music
Writing Jörn Donner Writer
Art Pertti Hilkamo Production Design
Camera Kari Sohlberg Director of Photography
Directing Eija-Elina Bergholm Director

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