Frozen Hell

Frozen Hell, written and directed by Ville Suhonen, unravels a hidden episode during the most debated period in Finnish history. There were tens of thousands Soviet Red Army prisoners who were captured as POWs by Finnish forces during the second world war. The prisoners became pawns of the Finnish political and industrial elite, battling between wartime superpowers and economic demands. One third of the prisoners died in the camps' primitive conditions or were unlawfully executed. The film includes previously unseen archive material and it deals with the dark side of Finnish war history for the first time. (Illume Oy)