Angela's War
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
97 min
Release Date
1984-09-07
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
2
Ida-Lotta Backman
Angela Anders
Mathieu Carrière
Thomas Schmidt
Jörn Donner
Gabriel
Erland Josephson
Anton Goldberg
Matti Oravisto
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Birgitta Ulfsson
Karin Berggren
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