Kätilö (2015)
Release Year: 2015
Nation: Finland
Alternative Title: Wildauge - The Midwife, Елена, Helena, The Midwife, Wildeye
Director: Antti J. Jokinen
Writer: Antti J. Jokinen, Katja Kettu
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
Companies: Solar Films
Genre: romance, film based on literature, drama
Budget: 1.803.780
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Keywords
Keywords: based on novel or book, world war ii, midwife, love, nazi officer, lapland war
Story
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
Summary
A Finnish midwife falls in love with a German-Finnish SS-officer during the Lapland War, in the middle of WWII.
