Film: Sisu

Cast: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila, Mimosa Willamo, Tatu Sinisalo, Wilhelm Enckell, Vincent Willestrand

Director: Jalmari Helander

Rating: 3/5

Runtime: 91 min

Aatami Kopri, a Finnish soldier who fought alone in World War II and single-handedly, brutally decimated more than 300 Russians(as legend would have it), subsequently abandoned the fighting to search for gold deep in the wilderness of Lapland. After finding a rich vein of nuggets he comes up against a formidable, marauding, retreating, Nazi battalion who think they can beat the legend and make history for themselves. But the Director, keeping Finnish Nationalistic pride in mind, obviously had other ideas.

The German company’s savage commander Bruno (Aksel Hennie) is wary of going back and coming face-to-face with the specter of war crimes - so when he sees gold in Kopri’s saddlebags he pounces on it as if it would ensure his safety from future punishment. Finnish women hostages, seized as sex slaves by the monstrous Nazis, are there to punctuate the legendary prophecy and seek out their own form of revenge.