The Midwife

2015

Finnish

6.0

♡ 5

based on novel or book

Antti Jokinen Director

Krista Kosonen as Helena Alatalo

Elina Knihtilä as Heta

Lauri Tilkanen as Johannes Angelhurst

Arturas Kuzmenka as Soldier

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.