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 enlarge | Director: Pekka Parikka
Category: DVD
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 10234
Format: Color, Subtitled, Ntsc
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 639802290793
EAN: 0639802290793
ASIN: B0000646UN
Release Date: December 31, 1990
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Condition: NEW AND FACTORY SEALED. DIRECT FROM THE STUDIO, ONE OF THE BEST WW2 WAR FILMS EVER MADE
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 Winter War (VHS) February 8, 2001
Jeffrey Sedgwick (College Place, WA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This movie will appear to die-hard war movie fans since it has lots of realistic action. The Russo-Finish War is not known by many people; this movie does a good job by showing the viewer how lopsided the numbers were between the two armies. My only gripe with the movie is the quality of the tape. Quite often it has a grainy look to it that was annoying. I could tell immediately that this was not a big bucks US production.
 Superb Film about a Defining Moment in Finnish History August 8, 2000
J. Collins (Las Vegas, NV USA)
183 out of 189 found this review helpful
"Winter War" (Talvisota in Finnish)is the story of the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish War seen through the eyes of a reserve infantry unit. We see them leaving their farms on mobilization, to assembly at the border, and follow them into battle until the armistice some 110 days later. To most Americans who know anything about it, the Winter War is visions of Sissi skiing rings around Russians. True that did happen, but the majority of Finnish units operated conventionally either in the Mannerheim Line or to the North/North East of it. This is what this film describes. The battle scenes are as authentic as any in Saving Private Ryan; if memory serves the "Soviet" Forces are Russian extras. Vehicles, weapons, uniforms are all entirely accurate. It's probably fair to consider this movie as Finland's SPR. Whereas some have criticized SPR for it's somewhat contrived plot, this movie has none of that; simply citizen soldiers called to save their nation. We watch as more and more of their friends are killed and wounded, in relentless Red Army assaults. This sense of loss is brought home again simply, but elegantly, in the scenes with the "home front". The final anticlimatic news of the armistice on the troops is depressing to see, but again entirely accurate. This film is a fitting tribute to the Finnish "Greatest Generation" who also did nothing less than save their nation- twice in 5 years from Soviet enslavement.
The War is the hell on Earth April 27, 2000
Carlos Santillan (Mexico City, Mexico.)
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
This movie depicts all the crudeness and fierness of the war. It's the story of a group of friends set in the middle of the Soviet invasion of 1939. Perhaps this story isn't widely known because the Soviets were "good guys" during the WWII and the finnishs seem to be related with Germany (they all wear german uniforms, helmets and equipment) but the true is that this movie show us that Findland is victim of a Soviet aggression and all the men must abandon their lives in order to defend their families, women and homes (we all know how barbaric the russians were, they always took the women as a war loot)Give a chance to the movie, it begins somewhat boring, but it's because we are introduced to the surroundings and lives of these young finnishs men, once that the war begins, it all is the hell on Earth.
Better(?) than Saving Private Ryan! January 13, 2000
Peter Viitanen (Connecticut)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
A confined section of front, a handful of reserve infantry reluctantly called to defend against the Red Army--true to life--as my family can tell. A 'non-Hollywood' look at war at its grimmest with no punches pulled. Live heroes are the ones who are lucky; the dead are merely the unlucky heroes.
Wow! What a fantastic movie! December 20, 1999
Glen Dresback (Altus, Oklahoma, USA)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
This has to be one of the better war movies of all time. It's a shame that it isn't better known in the US. The battle scenes are fantastic, making you feel like you're a part of the action. What this must have been like on the big screen! This movie follows a Finnish company from mobilization to war's end, with plenty of action and some leave in between. The numbers of people involved, from the Russian wave attacks to the marching soldiers, is also seldom seen these days. Overall, it's an excellent film.
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