Doc Helios: Sodan ja rauhan lapset (Children of War and Peace, 7) – Kino Helios
This film leads the viewers to see the nationalist upbringing of Finns in the early decades of the 20th century and the role models placed on children, which were guided by the state and authorities.
This film leads the viewers to see the nationalist upbringing of Finns in the early decades of the 20th century and the role models placed on children, which were guided by the state and authorities.
The Sodan ja rauhan lapset is built from archive material, propaganda material from films, photographs, radio programmes, books, magazines and music, as well as the diary entries of children and young people.
Speeches emphasising the needs of the fatherland are given by, for example, president Risto Ryti, MP and pastor Elias Simojoki, folk poetry researcher Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio and, of course, Marshal Mannerheim.
Education, training, leisure association activities, sports clubs, scouts, boy and girl activities – all aimed at military capability when the time would eventually come. Children and young people were expected to be obedient, loyal and honest. They had to put aside their own needs and feelings, not crying even in the face of difficult trials.
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