Amazon Prime viewers are in luck as an acclaimed warfare movie is obtainable to stream on the platform. The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish warfare movie directed by Pekka Parikka and primarily based on the 1984 novel Talvisota by Antti Tuuri.
It is about within the 1939 Winter War and tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment from Southern Ostrobothnia combating on the Karelian Isthmus. It focuses primarily on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava. The Winter War was launched in Finland on November 30, 1989, and it was Finland’s hottest movie with over 600,000 admissions. It received six Jussi Awards and was Finland’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film on the 63rd Academy Awards, however was by no means accepted as a nominee.
The movie’s synopsis reads: “Stalin orders an attack on Finland in November 1939, marking the beginning of the struggle for the small country. Two brothers join a regiment and travel to Karelia, where they try to survive the Winter War.”
The movie has a powerful 88% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. One viewer described the movie as a “masterpiece”. They acknowledged: “A relatively lesser-known Finnish master piece about The Winter War 1939-40. One of the first ‘gritty, realistic war movies’, if not The First, which had direct or indirect influence on most war movies directed after it. No Hollywoodisms, no artificial forced plot, no superheroes, no glorification of war. Pekka Parikka’s Talvisota is the war movie that many ways redefined the genre, and to which private Ryans, Stalingrads, Hacksaw Ridge, Red Thin Lines and ilk are in debt.”
One fan described the movie because the “best war movie ever”, whereas one other mentioned it was “the greatest war movie”.
A person on IMDb mentioned: “Finland and Germany always make good quality and realistic war movies. Reason: While they focus at all costs that the movie is 100% historically authentic, with the historical equipment, uniforms, etc., Hollywood often used cheap replacements (at least the older ones).”
“I think this movie is one of the most realistic war movies ever made,” added one other.
The Winter War is obtainable to stream on Amazon Prime.
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