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Krista kosonen
a film by antti
lauri tilkanen
J. jokinen
SOLAR FILMS PRESENTS KRISTA KOSONEN LAURI TILKANEN TOMMI KORPELA PIRKKA-PEKKA PETELIUS “WILDEYE”
SOUND DESIGNER KIRKA SAINIO MUSIC BY PESSI LEVANTO FILM EDITOR BENJAMIN MERCER VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR TUOMO HINTIKKA MAKE-UP DESIGNER RIIKKA VIRTANEN COSTUME DESIGNER ANNA VILPPUNEN PRODUCTION DESIGNER KARI KANKAANPÄÄ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY RAUNO RONKAINEN F.S.C. SCREENPLAY BY ANTTI J. JOKINEN AND KATJA KETTU BASED ON THE NOVEL “MIDWIFE” BY KATJA KETTU PRODUCED BY JUKKA HELLE AND MARKUS SELIN DIRECTED BY ANTTI J. JOKINEN
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The Midwife
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE IN MERCILESS TIMES
DIRECTOR CAST
PRODUCTION
GENRE
LENGTH
COUNTRY
LANGUAGE
STATUS Antti J. Jokinen
Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen,
Tommi Korpela,
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius
Solar Films Inc.
Drama
118 min
Finland
Finnish
completed
DIRECTOR
Antti J. Jokinen
Antti J. Jokinen’s feature debut
was the Brooklyn-set thriller
THE RESIDENT (2011) starring
Hilary Swank and Christopher
Lee. His second feature PURGE
(2012), based on Sofi Oksanen’s
bestselling novel, became
Finland’s official entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. A
graduate in film from East Carolina University, Antti has
worked on several TV series and directed music videos
for artists such as Will Smith, Beyoncé and Eminem.
THE MIDWIFE is his third feature film.
All rights reserved / Credits not contractual / Different territories
SYNOPSIS
Finland, 1944. The country is shaken by the Lapland War, a conflict between Germany and Finland in the aftermath of WWII.
Helena, a small community’s midwife nicknamed “Wildeye”, meets the Finnish-German Nazi officer Johannes Angelhurst. She is
attracted to the mysterious stranger and follows him to the prisoner of war camp where he serves to start working as a nurse.
For Angelhurst, Helena is different from any other woman, and they develop a wild and passionate relationship. Yet their burning
love neither removes the traumatic war images that haunt the officer nor the gruesome secrets hiding behind the walls of the
camp.When the turmoil of war separates the lovers, they make a pact to reunite at the remote cabin where they spent their
happiest times together. At the end of the war, Helena and Johannes put their lives at risk and suffer tremendous hardship to
fight their way back to each other, guided by a will to survive so strong that it bypasses the expectations of morality.
THE MIDWIFE is based on the the best-selling novel by Katja Kettu.