🎬 Finnish War Movie: Ambush Reaction | Emotional & Epic Moments #suomi

i really like this movie but i want to like it more.. i mean the sound effects on some scenes makes it feel like kinda cheap… otherwise its great movie

The open ground they were passing over along planks was a bog, a very common thing in the forests in Finland and Karelia so it´s limited routes you can pass

about groving stuff… most of us do not need to grow food because forests are full of blueberries and mushrooms in general, also you can sell them taxfree unless its not grown wild. i mean if you grow stuff at home and sell it, you need to pay taxes, but if you pick mushrooms or berries you can sell them basically anywhere and taxfree, my neighbour got 20 000€ for his mushroom when he sold all that 25 liters of those mushrooms to asian kitchen lol

31:20 – it was an order by highest grade of military, from mannerheim, or at least it was our mentalitethy (or how to say it…) that nobody is going to be left behind, alive or dead. and that actually was followed a lot. i mean. they were only left behind if they really was overrun or something. otherwise wounded or dead bodies always returned to home!

Yeah I've always thought this is the worst of the Finnish war movies, never understood why people like it. It has some meme scenes but that's about it.

You've already seen the unquestionably best ones in the unknown soldier followed by Talvisota. Some will argue you have to watch the 1955 version of the unknown soldier and that it's far superior, but really it's just old fashioned with a lot of niche Finnish culture and expressions that no foreigner could ever understand. Even most modern day Finns can't keep up with it at all times.

However there are movies worth watching that are better than Rukajärven tie despite not being near the top 2.

I am not an expert on farming, though I grew up on the coutryside.

Apart from some regions in the southwestern part of finland the soil did not lend itself readily for farming.

Before modern farming techniques agriculture was mostly "slash and burn" farming. Where trees were cut down and burned for fields, this made the soil yield crops for a few years. After which more ground had to be cleared for new firld and the old fields returned to woods.

There is a good video about forest finns in which slash and burn agriculture is mentioned.

This is definately the worst finnish war movie ever made.

The Rukajärvi Road does exist and the battle took place—you can find info on it on the WWW—but you're watching a fictional movie. Criticizing fictional characters like they are real life persons is always absurd. Everyone should see themselves shouting at the TV when watching fiction. Although the movie is fictional, some events in it are based on real war events. E.g. that bridge ambush scene indeed happened. The wounded soldier's real name was Juho Kärkkäinen. Although he had bullet holes in him plenty to kill him, he survived, lived to an age of 85 and died in 1983. How accurate the event was on the film, is of course another thing, but it goes to show that sometimes real life is more unbelievable than fiction: "A true story of Kärkkäinen – Rukajärven tie". During the war the soldiers risked their lives to get the dead back home. It was a task of honor. There's people searching them still on the Russian side of the border and shipping them to Finland. It's difficult to find actors of young age for realism, whom the theater audiences will pay to see. That's real life situation. On the other hand, E.g. the real life Kärkkäinen was in his 40s in 1941. Considering some of the soldiers young age and war situations, how rational can you expect them to behave? How leery will you be about every swamp, bush and house when you encounter them everywhere days in days out? Probably won't cover much distance, if you do. And the movie made out of it either might not have that many scenes in it or that much drama or then it would last for 12 hours. Probably wouldn't see theaters or even be a video release. Finland going to war with the Soviet Union wasn't considered smart. There was an US plan (Operation Alaska) to evacuate the Finnish population to Alaska. How smart does that sound? There are White Nights in the Nordics during summers and Nightless Nights in the North. You can sit on the riverbank till autumn waiting for it to get dark. And how much do the veterans of previous wars care and take orders? This documentary touches the subject and the best part of it is that it's about historical events: "Törni – Sotilaan tarina (A Soldier's Story) English Subtitles". And there's even a documentary to which making he took part: "Phantom Fighters (Green Berets) in Color with Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni)".

Nice to see another finnish war movie reaction! I agree with you on so many levels with this film 😅 it looks great and has lot of great finnish actors (specially Peter Franzen who has the main role) but as a critical view the film has so many points just don't make sense.

Jay would you consider do a reaction video of "Framom främsta linjen – Etulinjan edessä" some point in the future? The movie tells a true story and takes place during continuation war from finnish side – though the regiment native language is swedish. In my opinion it's the second best finnish war movie – after the "Unknown Soldier"

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No subtitles, the poor man is screaming for his mother, "äiti"

These Light Detachments had no indirect fire and they used bicycles, so they were more mobile than regular infantry.

As a Finn, I always thought that the lieutenent is a horrible person making the movie unrelatable.

They are still married.

I have this Declaration of war in my YouTube side

These men was from "light infantry" troops meaning no such things was available.

You really have more of a NATO/American mindset when it comes to war and attacks 😊.
Finland was a poor country, and had not so much of exactly everything, like you from the British and the Americans had.
Just think about them 32 old Tanks where 1/2 of them had no weapon attached to what so ever.
You did your service in the Military during the time when this mindset was law and order for you guys.
I as a Border Guard Jaeger had only a lot on mines anti tank mines, explosives, handgranades and sometimes a couple of them Nlaws was something we carried around.
But you must remember that Britain, Soviet Union and America could wage war on a totally different way than we Finns.
Because you where in the army back when Britain still was a force to take seriously you had not lack of anything and could still have that WW2 mindset as a NATO member.
I'm not the least surprised and I have to say that your comments that you sometimes could have when you saw that movie Winter War and now this movie makes really no sense whatsoever in my way of thinking….

Sometimes I thought and now think that you must have said such a comment only because you thought that the movie should have more and bigger war scenes, like in these American Hollywood block busters 😢.

But I hope that you want be offended because I wrote this about you because it only with love and with an old Finnish military mindset that I'm giving it a thought 😂😂😂.
I know that Finland have changed their way of fighting quite substantially, so we may see these mortars and air attacks in the future after Finland have been able to fight a new conflict with that mindset 😂😂…

My unit didn't use mortars either, but we was obviously trained to be able to use them if necessary but that was never something we had to carry with us out for weeks out in the forest, which I'm so thankful about, as where they all others.

Your commentary is low IQ, they don't have back up mortars and artillery. You are not commenting on what is shown on the screen, you are making up best possible scenarios in your head.