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Mother of Mine (Aideista Parhain)
Mother of Mine is an epic story of a small person's plight in the midst of the warring world. More than 70 000 children were evacuated from Finland to Sweden during the Second World War (the Finnish-Russian War 1939-1940). Mother of Mine is the first fictive film ever made on the individual fate of one of these children. It is a story of a boy who has two mothers, but at the same time has none.
Synopsis
"Remember the war, Mother? Remember how it all started?"
The war breaks out and nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the front. Widowed and broken by grief, Eero's mother is unable to look after her son. She sends him in refuge to Sweden, a neutral country whose welfare is untouched by the war.
Life in a foreign country doesn't however get off on a good start. Eero doesn't seem to match the expectations of the Swedish family and austere Mother Signe has him working as farmhand. Everyone around Eero speaks Swedish and he ends up living in a disconnected world of his own.
Worst of all, the letters from Eero's mother are always addressed to Signe. One day Eero gets hold of a letter from his mother in which she writes that Eero should perhaps stay in Sweden for good. Eero is shocked, but abandoned by his real mother, he becomes more and more attached to Signe. Little by little Eero becomes part of the new family and Signe becomes his mother.
But the war ends and the children must return to Finland. Once again Eero has to leave his home and start all over again. The scars of war have to be buried in the past.
On the death bed of his aged mother, Eero looks his past in the eye. After decades of silence, Eero is finally ready to talk about the war, his mother's choices and his own pain.
Production: Ilkka Matila, MRP Matila Rohr Productions
Director: Klaus Haro
Screenplay: Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Vikman.
based on Heikki Hietamies's novel by the same title and a script prepared on
the basis of the book by Veikko Aaltonen.
Cast: Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Esko Salminen, Aino-Maija Tikkanen,
Michael Nyqvist, Maria Lundqvist
Cinematographer Jarkko T.Laine
Music Tuomas Kantelinen
Duration 105 min
Category I
Date of release 23 Feb, 2006
Circuit of release Cine-Art House
Released by Myway Film
Promoted by Promotion Dept. of Sil-Metropole Org. Ltd
Official Website http://www.aideistaparhain.com/english
Historic background - Finnish war children
Altogether nearly 80 000 children were transferred during the Finnish-Russian War (1939-1940) from Finland to Sweden, Denmark and Norway. A majority of them, more than 70 000 children, were sent to Sweden. In proportion to the country's population, the great number of the war children represents a world record in child evacuations.
When the Finnish-Russian War broke out, a strong civil movement arouse among the Swedish public in sympathy of Finland: Finlands sak ar var! (Finland's cause is ours). Swedish families offered to look after Finnish children in their homes free of cost.
The Finnish Foreign Ministry would have preferred direct aid to Finland and turned down the offer. Two founding members of the Center for Aid to Finland, Maja Sandler, wife of the Swedish Foreign Minister, and Hanna Rydh, Ph.D., weren't however ready to leave it at that, but traveled to Finland to promote their aid program. As a result, the Finnish Center for Nordic Aid was founded on 13 December 1939, with the main objective of organizing the transfer of Finnish citizens to Sweden. The child transfers got the approval of the Minister of Social Affairs, K.A. Fagerholm, Minister for the Interior Ernst von Born and Field Marshal C.G. Mannerheim: the children were believed to ensure the bond between Finland and the Nordic countries.
The first war children were sent to Stockholm from the city of Turku already on 15 December 1939, on a ship called the Arcturus. Soon the transfers had to be organized by train via Haparanda, because Russian submarines reigned the sea.
Most of the children that were sent to Sweden came from Helsinki, Vyborg or the other bigger cities. At first the criteria for evacuation were quite strict (children of invalids, killed soldiers, the discharged working in reconstruction, working mothers, etc.). Later on practically any child under the age of thirteen could be sent to safety in Sweden.
The war children returned home during the interim peace but the transfers started again when the Continuation War broke out. Return transfers continued throughout the 1940s. The rehabilitation of the children turned out harder than expected, and still in 1950 and 1952 this controversial issue was subject to questions to the Parliament.
Some 15 000 children remained permanently in Sweden, about 500 stayed in Denmark.
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