Directed by:
Dome KarukoskiCinematography:
Lasse FrankCast:
Pekka Strang, Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Jessica Grabowsky, Jimmy Shaw, Lauri Tilkanen, Kari Hietalahti, Meri Nenonen, Siim Maaten (more)Plots(1)
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds post-war Helsinki rampant with homophobic persecution, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhabitations. His work made famous by his signature Tom of Finland became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a worldwide gay revolution. (Saffron Hill Films)
(more)Cast
Pekka Strang
Finland
Best movies:
Naked Harbour (2012)
Simo Times Three (2012)
Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
Jakob Oftebro
Norway
Best movies:
1864 - Brødre i krig (2014)
Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine (2013)
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Werner Daehn
West Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
United (2011) (TV movie)
Þorsteinn Bachmann
Iceland
Best movies:
Sense8 (2015) (series)
Let Me Fall (2018)
Summerlight... and Then Comes the Night (2022)
Jessica Grabowsky
Finland
Best movies:
8-Ball (2013)
Tom of Finland (2017)
Love and Other Troubles (2012)
Jimmy Shaw
USA
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Megan Leavey (2017)
Smoke & Mirrors (2016)
Lauri Tilkanen
Finland
Best movies:
Silence (2011)
A Patriotic Man (2013)
Ladies of Steel (2020)
Kari Hietalahti
Finland
Best movies:
Promise (2005)
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)
Void (2018)
Meri Nenonen
Finland
Best movies:
Stars Above (2012)
Naked Harbour (2012)
Producing Adults (2004)
Siim Maaten
Best movies:
Revolution of Pigs (2004)
Tom of Finland (2017)
Mother (2016)
Jarno Pimperi
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)
Matthew Way
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Taisto Oksanen
Finland
Best movies:
Little Wing (2016)
A Patriotic Man (2013)
1944: The Final Defence (2007)
Martin Bahne
Finland
Best movies:
The Border (2007)
Beyond Enemy Lines (2004)
Moomins on the Riviera (2014)
Annika Sucksdorff
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)
Eric Rusch
Sweden
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)
Christian Sandström
Finland
Best movies:
Beyond Enemy Lines (2004)
1944: The Final Defence (2007)
Tom of Finland (2017)
Matti Hirvi
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)
Haymon Maria Buttinger
Austria
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Before Sunrise (1995)
The Captain (2017)
Jesse Fryckman
Best movies:
Tom of Finland (2017)