The Midwife

The Midwife

A midwife's forbidden love story... separated by war, joined by love at first sight.

2015119 min5.8 / 10

A melancholic wartime romance centered on a midwife's sacrifice and devotion, where love becomes an act of defiance against the brutality of conflict.

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

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