The Border
- Original title
- Raja 1918
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
- Finland
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Martin Bahne
- Hannu-Pekka Björkman
- Minna Haapkylä
- Tommi Korpela
- Leonid Mozgovoy
- Lauri Nurkse
- Risto Kaskilahti
- Orvo Björninen
- Pauli Poranen
- Roman Schatz
- Hannu Kahakorpi
- Marjaana Maijala
- Maria Salomaa
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Finland-Russia;
- Genre
- Drama. Romance | Historical. 1910s
- Synopsis
- The film is set during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, a year after Finland had declared independence from Russia. In a nutshell, the war was between the "Whites" (the national guard) and the "Reds" (the Bolsheviks). The film follows the young Captain Carl von Munck who is sent to the newly established border to make sure that undesirable elements (Russians, Jews, Bolsheviks) are kept out of Finland. The film attempts to demonstrate how easily concentration camp style "quarantines" were set up along the new border and how people were only allowed into the country if they looked right (ie. didn't look Russian or Jewish) and could pronounce Finnish words without an accent...
- Awards
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2008: Jussi Awards (Finland): Best Sound Design. 5 nominations
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