Silver from Across the Border
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist (Jaakko Pakkasvirta) and Anttala (Veikko Kerttula) decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.
Mikko Niskanen
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