Sisu (film)
Petri Jokiranta is the producer of the 2022 Finnish historical action thriller Sisu, which was written and directed by Jalmari Helander. In addition to Jorma Tommila, the picture stars Onni Tommila, Jack Doolan, Aksel Hennie, and Mimosa Willamo. In the last stages of World War II, during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany, a renowned Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector tries to protect himself from being plundered and killed by a Waffen-SS unit under the direction of a notoriously violent and dishonest general.
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Plot
Aatami Korpi, who is prospecting in the Lapland region in late 1944, lives alone with his horse and devoted Bedlington Terrier. After discovering a substantial gold deposit, Aatami gathers a sizable quantity of nuggets and makes his way to Rovaniemi. Aatami runs across a sizable Waffen-SS platoon under the command of Obersturmführer Bruno Helldorf along the route. As they flee to Norway, Helldorf is burning towns and has captured a number of Finnish women. Aatami is ignored by Helldorf, who shows little interest in him. A second platoon of SS troopers soon approaches Aatami after seeing his gold-filled saddlebags. They mockingly resolve to loot and murder him, but he quickly eliminates them all.
Aatami’s horse is destroyed by a landmine as Helldorf and his tank follow him to the edge of a minefield. In order to leave, Aatami purposefully explodes another mine while Helldorf and his soldiers look on as he gathers up his wealth. He is pursued by a number of troops, but they are soon destroyed by mines. To guarantee a clean route, Helldorf gives two of the imprisoned ladies directives in advance. Wolf, Helldorf’s second-in-command, finds out about Aatami’s background via the radio after obtaining her dog tag. The furious Aatami, who lost his family while serving as a Finnish Army commando during the Winter War, became the infamous “one-man death squad” known as Koshchei (“the Immortal”) by Joseph Stalin’s Red Army.
Sisu review
Near the close of World War II, in 1944, Sisu takes place. A granite-faced miner finds gold in the midst of nowhere in the opening scene. However, he encounters a convoy of Nazis leaving Finland as he rides into the city with a bag full of gold. You may believe that there is no more room for bloodthirsty Nazis in the films, but Helander’s depiction of Germans toward the end of the war gives them a fresh and rather intriguing perspective: they are dizzy and war-addled, wearing ripped uniforms with greasy features and lifeless eyes. They are nihilistic, and the game is up.
However, none of them is particularly weighed down by the depth of their characters. This also applies to the miner, who is revealed to be Aatami, a renowned Finnish soldier who is so resilient that he can extract shrapnel by sticking his hand deep within his own body. The Russians dubbed him the Immortal earlier in the conflict, and Jorma Tommila portrays him as a powerful but not quite dominant figure. Aatami eliminates the Nazis one by one, much like John Wick in a spaghetti western.
