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Film Festival 2025
This powerful film reveals a little-known chapter of history: the deportation of eight Austrian-Jewish refugees from Finland by the Gestapo during World War II. Abraham Stiller (Ville Virtanen), a pillar of Helsinki's Jewish community, fights to save them in director Klaus Härö’s resonant, moving drama.
film details
| Director: | Klaus Härö |
| Producers: | Ilkka Matila, Loredana Rehekampff, Andreas Schmied, Kristian Taska, Adeele Tähemaa, Josef Brandmaier, John Hörnschemeyer, Peter Krupenin, Nima Youssuf |
| Screenwriter: | Klaus Härö, Jimmy Karlsson |
| Cinematographers: | Robert Nordström |
| Editor: | Tambet Tasuja |
| Music: | Matti Bye |
| Cast: | Ville Virtanen, Kari Hietalahti, Rony Herman |
| Country: | Finland/Austria/Estonia/Germany/Sweden |
| Language: | In Swedish and Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, English, Finnish, German with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Running Time: | 85 minutes |
| Premiere Status: | North American Premiere |
| Director Filmography: | My Sailor, My Love (PSIFF 2023), One Last Deal (PSIFF 2019), The Fencer (PSIFF 2016), Letters to Father Jacob (PSIFF 2010), The New Man (PSIFF 2008), Mother of Mine (PSIFF 2006), Elina - As If I Didn’t Exist (PSIFF 2004) |
| Primary Company: | Menemsha |