They came to Sweden together with 70,000 other Finnish children during the Second World War. They would be rescued from the war. But they came to strange people with an incomprehensible language. And they never understood why they must be separated from their families. They became adoptive children and foster children and only now can they remember what they have been through. After sixty years in Sweden, a group of war children from Hälsingland make a trip back to childhood.
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It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
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