The Unknown Soldier

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.

Kosti Klemelä

Koskela

Heikki Savolainen

Hietanen

Reino Tolvanen

Rokka

Veikko Sinisalo

Lahtinen

Åke Lindman

Lehto

Pentti Siimes

Määttä

Leo Riuttu

Vanhala

Kaarlo Halttunen

Rahikainen

Matti Ranin

Kariluoto

Jussi Jurkka

Lammio

Tauno Palo

Sarastie

Pentti Irjala

Kaarna

Vilho Siivola

Mäkilä

Martti Romppanen

Sihvonen

Tapio Hämäläinen

Salo

Olavi Ahonen

Riitaoja

Tarmo Manni

Honkajoki

Veli-Matti Kaitala

Hauhia