Beyond the Front Line

A historically grounded account of Finnish soldiers enduring brutal combat during WWII, told through personal wartime diaries with emphasis on the grinding human cost of war.

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.