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GENERAL iNFO
Release Date.....: 06.06.2010
Street Date......: 04.06.2010
Theatre Date.....: 04.12.2009 (FI)
Title............: T ll Pohjantähden Alla
Director.........: Timo Koivusalo
Genre............: Drama / History / Romance / War
Runtime..........: 182 min
iMDB.............: http://imdb.com/title/tt1145479/
iMDB Rating......: 6.9/10 (86 votes)
ENCODE iNFO
Source...........: Retail R2 PAL DVD9
Format...........: XviD
Resolution.......: 608x336
Aspect Ratio.....: 1.81:1
Framerate........: 25.000 FPS
Video Bitrate....: 1070 kb/s
Audio Format.....: MP3 VBR Stereo 128 kb/s 48Khz
Size.............: CD1 37x20MB (731,346,944 bytes)
CD2 37x15MB (730,001,408 bytes)
Language.........: Finnish
Subs.............: English, Swedish, Finnish for hearing
impaired
SUMMARY
Akseli Koskela is the son of a parsonage crofter who,
when he has grown up, finds it impossible to submit to
the role of a faithful and humble servant required of
him by the conservative upper class. Unlike previous
generations who had no other alternative, Akseli begins
dreaming of freedom and the right to his own lands,
fuelled by the new and stirring ideologies of the time.
The uncertainty of life strikes with force, however, as
the parsonage reclaims most of the fields that Akseli's
father has cleared out of raw marshland. The grim and
irreconcilable bitterness caused by this makes Akseli
take an interest in social issues. He joins the local
Workers' Association, which is headed by the village
tailor Halme. Halme's moderate and pacifist views don't
satisfy Akseli for long, and he joins the Red Guard,
whose purpose is to claim by force that which is not
given to the working class by peace: the right to the
fruits of their own labour.
In 1918, Finland's bitter and bloody Civil War divides
the people in two. Focused and strong-willed, Akseli is
promoted to the position of company commander and, after
the Reds' devastating defeat, is put in charge of a
hopeless mission: leading a ragged refugee caravan,
fleeing the victors' revenge, across the border to
safety. Tens of thousands of Reds are executed, and the
victors impose their whim upon the losing side,
initiating a merciless cleansing operation, blinded by
vengeance and unchecked by anyone.
Thousands suffer, perish and are killed in prison camps
that don't spare even the women or children. Both of
Akseli's brothers are executed, as is tailor Halme, along
with most of Akseli's friends, who were members of the
Red Guard in their home village. Akseli himself avoids
execution by mere chance, and is pardoned after a
four-year-stint in a prison camp.
After his liberation, Akseli withdraws from the world and
concentrates on farming the lands of his croft, trying to
settle with the ghosts of his past. Without a thought for
himself, he toils for his children's future, with his
wife Elina by his side, trying to ease her husband's
burden by being strong. Finally, Akseli is allowed to
purchase the croft's lands for his family and he thinks
everything will be fine now - but a different destiny
awaits.
The Winter War breaks out, and the Soviet Union tries to
occupy Finland. The people torn in two by the Civil War
unite in the face of a common enemy and accomplish the
impossible. An overwhelming enemy is fended off, but the
price is high for Finland and Akseli alike. His two
younger sons are killed in the war, and the oldest, to
his horror, abandons the home croft and sets off on a
career in the military. Akseli's fears are realised as
his eldest son is also killed on the battlefield during
the final moments of the Continuation War.
The country remains free, and Akseli is now also a free
farmhouse owner, but has it all been worth it?
In Akseli's own words: "What sense was there in
anything if nothing is left? Why the Koskela house,
from father's first shovel strike to a lifetime of toil
and trouble, if in the end there is just emptiness..."
Under the North Star is a realistic and profoundly
humane account of the immense and inhuman sacrifices
that ordinary people and families have to make when
they get caught between the wheels of history like
grains of sand.
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