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Directed by | Aku Louhimies |
Produced by | Aleksi Bardy |
Written by | Jari Rantala |
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Käsky by Leena Lander |
Starring |
Samuli Vauramo Pihla Viitala Eero Aho |
Music by | Pessi Levanto |
Cinematography | Rauno Ronkainen |
Edited by | Benjamin Mercer |
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Distributed by | FS Film |
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Country | Finland |
Language | Finnish |
Budget | €1.5 million |
Box office | €274,079 (domestic) |
Tears of April (Finnish: Käsky) is a 2008 Finnish war drama film directed by Aku Louhimies. Based on the novel Käsky by Leena Lander, the film is set in the final stages of the Finnish Civil War. The fictional character Emil Hallenberg is loosely based on the actual , a poet turned judge and executioner.