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Evoking the middle-class relationship sturm-und-drang of much of Ingmar Bergman’s work, albeit without his propensity for dramatic heft, this Finnish film charts not so much a love triangle as a love rhombus.
Defiance (
Ei kertonut katuvansa).
Tommi Kinnunen’s award-winning novel is a nominee for the Finlandia award, the top literary prize in the country.
Selma Vilhunen will direct the film, and she is co-writing the script with Jan Forsström, whose credits include
Miami and
The Good Son. Vilhunen, a co-founder of Tuffi and a former Oscar nominee, has feature credits include
Stupid Young Heart and
Little Wing.
The team plans to shoot the film in May 2023, with Tuffi’s Elli Toivoniemi and Venla Hellstedt to produce.
The story is about five Finnish women who had been working for the German army in northern Norway in the last months of World War II; they escape while being transported to a prisoner camp and began a perilous journey home across the tundra and burnt-down villages of Lapland.