Gustaf Mannerheim

Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.

An interview documentary about Finnish military court sentencing procedures after the Continuation War.

President Risto Ryti radio voice of the Continuation War 06/26/1941.

Documentary film about ceremonies of independence day in Finland in year 1940.

Tampere Civil Protection Corps' anniversary parade. Compiled from preserved material.

The second part of Suomi-Filmi's Mannerheim trilogy, which was shown in early 1938. While Bio Maxim filmed Mannerheim's 70th birthday celebrations with two cameras and in silent mode, Suomi-Filmi filmed its sound film with five cameras. The Narva march also rang out magnificently when Mannerheim inspects the troops. The stream of congratulators is unbroken, from President Kyösti Kallio, Ernst Linder and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst to the industrial union and tribal warriors...

Visit to Finland by Lord Robert Smyth Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement.

Mannerheim's life stages.

After the men returned from the front, the country had to be rebuilt, the displaced population had to be resettled, and large war reparations had to be paid. The return to peace was difficult, but the Finnish people coped with it honorably through joint efforts.

This film, discovered in the mid-1970s, shows, among other things, Mannerheim with his headquarters in Vaasa, White Guards training in the Vaasa barracks and at the Vöyri military school, surrendered Russian prisoners of war, and Swedish volunteers who participated in the civil war. Finally, it depicts a large military funeral in Vaasa on April 4, 1918. At that time, Jaeger officer Oskar Peltokangas was buried, accompanied by thousands of escorts.

Traffic on a summer night on the roads of southern Finland, the highways are dusty, the convoys of cars are advancing towards Helsinki, handkerchiefs are flashing on the roadsides. Special trains arrive from the provinces at the Helsinki goods station. The Lotats are feeding the marchers with the help of sopa cannons. Organization on the football field, and then the march begins. A celebration at Senate Square and its highlight, a speech by farmer Vihtori Kosola to the 12,000 participants of the peasant march in front of the president, the government, Mannerheim and the top leadership of the army.

The parade marking the 70th anniversary of the War Marshal at Senate Square, also attended by scouts and schoolchildren, as well as representatives of Petsamo.

The arrival of General Mannerheim with the Finnish Civil Army on 16 May 1918

A rare documentary about a Swedish brigade that participated alongside the White forces in the Finnish Civil War in the spring of 1918. In the film, Mannerheim bids farewell to the Swedish brigade, which also participated in the great victory parade. The brigade moved by rail to Turku and from there by ship to its homeland.