The Midwife

Sep 4, 2015

1h 59m

★ 5.8

A midwife's forbidden love story... separated by war, joined by love at first sight.

Overview

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Production Companies

Solar Films

The Midwife Trailers

Cast

Helena

Krista Kosonen

Johannes

Lauri Tilkanen

Jouni

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Aune

Leea Klemola

Gödel

Tommi Korpela

Björne

Seppo Pääkkönen

Heta

Elina Knihtilä

Aleksei

Johannes Brotherus

Haataja

Tiina Weckström

Lispet

Jade Viljamaa

Jaakkima

Ylermi Rajamaa

Kristiina Alatalo

Armi Toivanen

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.

6.9

Billy Liar

Aug 15, 1963

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

6.8

Enchanted April

Nov 27, 1991

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

3.0

Promised a Miracle

May 19, 1988

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.

6.4

The Railway Station Man

Oct 18, 1992

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mysterious American man named Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is in the area to refurbish an old train station. A romance slowly blossoms between Roger and Helen, but Jack then gets involved with a violent political group, and tragedy looms.

5.5

Diary of a Pig War

Aug 7, 1975

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.

6.2

Delirium

Jun 20, 2014

Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.

5.3

Battle of the Commandos

Aug 12, 1969

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

0.0

The Greatest Thing

Aug 31, 2001

Film based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten"

3.5

Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof

Sep 28, 1955

No overview available.

1.0

Rosenbaum - Bländverk

Sep 13, 1993

At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.

1.0

Rosenbaum - Målbrott

Oct 29, 1993

One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.

8.0

Cheese

Jan 1, 1999

Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.

0.0

Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet

Nov 5, 1993

At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything indicates that the chairman of the board is guilty.

6.0

The Girl from the Song

Apr 24, 2017

A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.

5.0

Great Times

Jan 19, 1979

The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas.

7.0

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Sep 2, 1959

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

0.0

Lejyon Dönüşü

Nov 25, 1957

No overview available.