Okänd soldat flashback
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Okänd soldatär inte en roman om generaler eller om marskalk Mannerheim. Den handlar inte om strategiska överväganden och pilar på en karta vid något högkvarter. I ytterst liten måtta handlar den om politik.
Vad den istället beskriver är livet för enskilda finska soldater på fältet under fortsättningskriget Det är landsbygdspojkar och stadsynglingar som sammanförts på exercisheden och sedan kallats ut för att med vapen i hand gå ryssen till mötes.
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Okänd soldatär en osminkad berättelse, mycket långt från Fänrik Ståls nationalromantiska värld. Boken är full av hunger, mörker, oländiga skogar, befallningar om anfall och befallningar om att hålla en viss bit mark.
Men framförallt är det en berättelse om människor: först många, främst ur en viss kulsprutepluton, sedan färre, allteftersom deras antal tunnas ut när de såras eller dödas. Men nya rekryter fyller på allteftersom det är möjligt.
Vi har den tyste, barske fänrik Koskela, som äger mannarnas respekt genom sitt okonstlade sätt och p
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The Unknown Soldier ( film)
For other uses, see Unknown Soldier (disambiguation).
Finnish film
The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas, Swedish: Okänd soldat) is a Finnishwar film directed by Edvin Laine that premiered in December It is based on The Unknown Soldier, a novel by Väinö Linna. The story is about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers.
The film was and remains the most successful movie ever in Finland; about million people, or more than half the Finnish population, saw it in theaters.[1][2] Its portrayal of Linna's characters is widely accepted as canonical. The film was voted the best Finnish movie by 1, respondents in an Internet poll by Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in [3][4]
The novel would be filmed again in by Rauni Mollberg and again in by Aku Louhimies.
Synopsis
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Set against the events of the Finnish Continuation War, the film follows a machine gun troop's journey into the Soviet Union. The troop includes the simple-minded Hietanen, the jokey Van
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The Unknown Soldier (novel)
war novel bygd Väinö Linna
The Unknown Soldier (Finnish: Tuntematon sotilas, Swedish: Okänd soldat) or Unknown Soldiers fryst vatten a war novel bygd Finnish author Väinö Linna, considered his magnum opus. Published in , The Unknown Soldier chronicles the – Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers.
In , the manuscript version of the novel was published with the title Sotaromaani ("the war novel") and in , the latest English translation as Unknown Soldiers. A fictional konto based closely on Linna's own experiences during the war, the novel presented a more realistic outlook on the formerly romanticized image of a noble and obedient Finnish soldier. Linna gave his characters independent and critical thoughts, and presented them with human feelings, such as fear and rebellion.
Although published to mixed reviews, The Unknown Soldier quickly became one of the best-selling books in land i norden and fryst vatten considered both a classic in Finnish literature and a part of the national legacy.[1][2] The novel was well received bygd frontline veterans; it shot Linna to literary