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| | Political Film Society - Ambush |
 | | Ambush, directed by Olli Saarela, is the story of one episode in what Finland calls the Continuation War. |
 | | At the beginning of the film begins, Lt. Eero Perkola (played by Peter Franzén) receives an order to lead his platoon to Repola, a military encampment where he fortuitously encounters his girlfriend Kaarina Vainikainen (played by Irina Björklund), a member of the Auxiliaries who are attending to the men in uniform and the casualties. |
 | | With a minimum of actual violence, Ambush is almost an antiwar film, demonstrating through the conflict between Lukkari and Saarinen the way in which war can turn young men into savages, separating those who are mentally ill equipped from those who become obsessively vicious, with most somewhere on the scale between. |
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