Family Files (2002)

A woman from Lapland falls in love with a Viennese soldier during World War II, becomes pregnant and leaves Finland. She gives birth in Hamburg, but later becomes home-sick and returns to her country. The woman is Mari Soppela’s grandmother, the starting point of Soppela’s film, Family Files. Naturally, it is only the start of the film: in the Soppela family saga, it is merely one link in an endless chain.

Released Jan. 1, 2002 78 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.suicide, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.death, imdb.missing-father, imdb.continuation-war, imdb.post-war, imdb.sorrow + 23 more, imdb.funeral, imdb.generation, imdb.legacy, imdb.lapland-finland, imdb.seasonal-changes, imdb.winter, imdb.summer, imdb.midsummer, imdb.ancestor, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.mental-depression, imdb.mental-instability, imdb.personal-documentary, imdb.grandparent, imdb.grandmother, imdb.single-parent, imdb.rural, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.village, imdb.periphery, imdb.reindeer-herding, imdb.identity, imdb.f-rated