Freedom lies beyond heaven and hell
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
Screenplay: Antti Tuuri, Aku Louhimies, Antti-Jussi Annila
Director of Photography: Rauno Ronkainen
Producer: Ilkka Matila
Jussi Ketola
Sara
Kallonen
Sofia
Strang
John Hill
Ella
Mary (age 8)
The Eternal Road (Ikitie, 2017) international trailer