Angela's War (Angelan sota) 40 years old

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.

Credits

Angela's War Cast

Name	Character
Jörn Donner He was 51, 86 years old when he died	as Gabriel
Erland Josephson He was 61, 88 years old when he died	as Anton Goldberg
Mathieu Carrière He was 34, now 74 years old	as Thomas Schmidt

Angela's War Crew

Name	Department
Jörn Donner as Writer. He was 51 (86) years old when He died	Writing
Eija-Elina Bergholm as Writer. She was 41 (now 81) years old	Writing
Kari Sohlberg as Director of Photography. He was 43 (now 84) years old	Camera