Episodes
Utopia
Expecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
Epäluulo
A Finnish detective, who has been detained in the Solovetskyi prison camp, faces the first steps that the Great Purge takes. The hunt for so-called gulags, property owning farmers, starts, and impacts especially Ukraine.
Kauna
Finnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
Viha
Germans and Polish are sentenced to camps or to death, starting the purge of ethnic minority groups. When Stalin's persecutions are at their height, operations follow seemlessly each other.
Cast
Mikhail Gylling
Self - Medical Doctor
Nikolaj Iwanow
Self - Professor of History, University of Opole
Aleksi Mainio
Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Kimmo Rentola
Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Anni Reuter
Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
Meelis Saueauk
Self - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
Ina Susi
Self - Teacher
Anneli Ranta
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gints Apals
Self - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
Jesse Hirvelä
Self - Historian, University of Helsinki
Crew
Tommi Pietiläinen
Director
Toni Viljanmaa
Producer
Juho Virolainen
Editor
Toni Viljanmaa
Writer
Aki Forsman
Executive Producer
Henna-Maija Kuki
Music
Sami Haartemo
Graphic Designer
Jussi Heikkinen
Sound Recordist
Andreas Jõesaar
Sound Recordist
Jussi Knaapila
Sound Recordist
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