Norwegian Woods (OT)

Albert Engström's satirical cartoons and caricatures ridiculed the powers that be, including priests, rulers, burgess and officers. His best-known character was 'Kolingen', a tramp who always observed and made fun of the upper classes from an outsider's point of view.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela painted some powerful interpretations of the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala. Among the most moving of these was the Symbolist painting Lemminkäinen's Mother, in which youthful bravado and recklessness have driven the hero to destruction. The scene is set in the realm of the dead, by the river of Tuonela, from which there is no return. And yet the power of a mother’s love transcends the bounds of humanity, and the dead awaken to life. The film takes the viewer deep into another world, into limbo, into a land that does not exist.