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Seamstress

09/25/2015

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1hr 33min

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Documentary

So great is to die and live for happiness and freedom

STORY

A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Martta Koskinen
  • Vera Kiiskinen
  • Pekka Milonoff
  • Laura Birn
  • Elena Leeve

    Director

  • Ville Suhonen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Illume

    Production Countries

  • Finland

LANGUAGES

  • Finnish

Cast

Martta Koskinen

Herself (Archive footage)

Vera Kiiskinen

Martta Koskinen (voice)

Pekka Milonoff

Narrator (voice)

Laura Birn

Hertta Kuusinen (voice)

Elena Leeve

Mirjam Koskinen (voice)

Vilma Melasniemi

Elvi Sinervo (voice)

Taisto Oksanen

EK:n / Valpon etsivä (voice)

Antti Seppänen

EK:n / Valpon etsivä (voice)

Antti Virmavirta

EK:n / Valpon etsivä (voice)

Seppo Louhi

Emil Soinala (voice)

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