This film is set in a part of the world that I have never seen and I'd like to thank the director for making an engaging film with this setting. The film makes no effort to explain at the start and for the first half hour it was not entirely clear what was going on. Later the Finnish soldier is FAR to forgiving of the efforts by the Russian soldier to kill him. As far as I'm concerned, one attempt to kill me is quite enough, the Finn by contrast laughs off three different attempts. That is idealism taken to an absurd dimension.
The three characters all speak a different language but since I don't know Finnish, Russian or Saami, I couldn't tell when they were communicating and when they weren't. The subtitles could have more clearly indicated this fact.
All that aside, the acting was good, the Saami girl was quite compelling in her "calling the dead" scenes. All in all a good film about something most people know nothing about set in a strange and wonderful location.
The three characters all speak a different language but since I don't know Finnish, Russian or Saami, I couldn't tell when they were communicating and when they weren't. The subtitles could have more clearly indicated this fact.
All that aside, the acting was good, the Saami girl was quite compelling in her "calling the dead" scenes. All in all a good film about something most people know nothing about set in a strange and wonderful location.