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The Eternal Road

The Eternal Road

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 15, 2017

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

History, Drama, War

User Score

69%

Original Title

Ikitie

Production Companies

Taska Film, MRP Matila Röhr Productions, Anagram Film, Film i Väst

Director

Antti-Jussi Annila

Budget

$3,100,000

Description

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.