"Actor: Lauri Tilkanen"

• Finland 1944 | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.76   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Finland, 1944. The country is shaken by the Lapland War, a conflict between Germany and Finland in the aftermath of WWII. When Helena, a Finnish midwife nicknamed Wildeye , meets a Finnish-German Nazi officer, they develop a wild and passionate relationship. Yet their love can t disguise the trauma of war which haunt the officer, nor the gruesome secrets hiding behind the walls of the POW camp he served at. When the turmoil of war separates the lovers, they make a pact to reunite at the remote cabin where they spent their happiest times together. Guided by a will to survive, they both put their lives at risk to survive and find their way back to each other...

• Tom Of Finland | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  AWARD-WINNING filmmaker DOME KARUKOSKI brings to screen the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture. TOM OF FINLAND is the beautiful and thrilling true story of Finnish artist TOUKO LAAKSONEN and his journey to international success. 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 gay revolution.

• Tom Of Finland | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £5.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Finnish biographical drama directed by Dome Karukoski and starring Pekka Strang, Taisto Oksanen and Lauri Tilkanen. Touko Laaksonen (Strang), who would come to be known as Tom of Finland, serves in the Second World War and defends his homeland from invasion, becoming a decorated lieutenant in the process; this is not what he is remembered for however. Touko is homosexual and in the years after the war he encounters some of his old comrades again and forges a lifelong relationship with one of them, but he also suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and relies heavily on his sister for support. Touko is a skilled draughtsman and his homoerotic drawings gain him notoriety as part of an increasingly open gay community, despite the continued persecution of homosexuality in Finland and beyond. His art soon makes Tom of Finland a gay icon and a symbol for the emergent social movement for years to come.