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• Actors: Sulevi Peltola, Mikko Kouki, Samuli Vauramo, Pihla Viitala, Eero Aho
• Directors: Aku Louhimies
• Producers: Tears of April ( Käsky ) ( Die Unbeugsame ), Tears of April, Käsky, Die Unbeugsame
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: FS-Film
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0021H0FUA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,810 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Finland released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Finnish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Finnish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Finnish ( Dolby DTS 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Teaser(s), Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Set in 1918 during the Finnish civil war, the red socialists are fighting against white bourgeois. An intelligent and strong woman, red army fighter Miina Malin manages to escape from capture by the whites. White soldier Aaro catches her again, but unlike other soldiers, he does not want to kill her--he wants to take her to a fair trial. The meeting of Aaro and Miina binds two strong human stories together and sparks an edgy love story in the midst of the horrors of civil war. ...Tears of April ( Käsky ) ( Die Unbeugsame )

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better edition available, July 22, 2011

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roland klinger (switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tears of April ( Käsky ) ( Die Unbeugsame ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ] (DVD)

I bought "Tears of April" through www.amazon.de and obtained a DVD with English subtitles and no Region Code (i.e. Region Code 0). Set in the Finnish Civil War (1918) the story follows the novel of writer Leena Lander.
Translated exerpt of the German back cover: "The times are rough and contaminated by an icy hatred. The conservative Whites have defeated the socialist Reds and confined them in camps. In one of these camps the imprisoned "red" woman Miina meets the young ambitious soldier Aaro from the Whites. Believing in a "higher" (level) of justice Aaro makes a solitariy decision in order to save the woman from execution. He convoys her from his unit to a distant drumhead court-martial. At the same time being saver and deadly enemy (of Miina) Aaro escorts the reticent and hostile Miina through the Finnish back-country. An attempt of Miina to escape makes capsize the boat they are under way. Grounding on an uninhabitated island they are suddenly faced with the struggle of (physical) survival and now depending on each other. During that period on the island they develop a strong mutual attraction. But soon after leaving the island their recently achieved confidence will be challenged. The soldier Aaro has to decide between his soldierly duty and his emotions."
Aaro's high ideals about soldierly duty AND pure love lead him into a dilemma. The believable straight forward story is so intensively presented that its almost unbearable.