The Border (2007 film)

The Border (Finnish: Raja 1918, Russian: Граница 1918, romanized: Granitsa 1918, lit. 'Border 1918') is a 2007 Finnish-Russian war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen. Set in the spring of 1918, right after the Finnish Civil War, the film is about a Finnish officer who is sent to the village of Rajajoki to form a border between Finland and Soviet Russia.^[3][4]

FinnishRaja 1918

RussianГраница 1918

Directed byLauri Törhönen

Written byAleksi Bardy
Lauri Törhönen

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The Border
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Finnish	Raja 1918
Russian	Граница 1918
Directed by	Lauri Törhönen
Written by	Aleksi Bardy Lauri Törhönen
Produced by	Jörn Donner Jarkko Hentula
Starring	Martin Bahne Minna Haapkylä Tommi Korpela Leonid Mozgovoy Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Cinematography	Esa Vuorinen
Edited by	Kimmo Kohtamäki
Music by	Sergei Yevtushenko
Production companies	Border Productions The Hermitage Bridge Studio Studio 217
Distributed by	FS Film
Release dates	30 November 2007 (2007-11-30) (Finland) 17 December 2008 (2008-12-17) (Russia)
Running time	114 minutes
Countries	Finland Russia
Languages	Finnish, Russian, Swedish, German
Budget	€2.1 million[1]
Box office	€382,151 (Finland)[2]

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The film's main character Carl von Munck is based on Kai Donner and his experiences during the post-civil war period.^[5] His son Jörn Donner is one of the film's producers.