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Release Date: 2005   Duration: 111 min

Cast: Aino-Maija Tikkanen, Esko Salminen, Maria Lundqvist, J. Christoffer Slotte, Michael Nyqvist, Penny Elvira Loftéen, Topi Marjaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Kari-Pekka Toivonen

Categories: Movies, Drama, World cinema

Mother of Mine is a 2005 Finnish-Swedish film directed by Klaus Härö. The film is based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies. It received good reviews from the Finnish press, and was selected to be Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. The story is a discussion between Eero and his biological mother, where they are talking to each...  MORE

Mother of Mine is a 2005 Finnish-Swedish film directed by Klaus Härö. The film is based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies. It received good reviews from the Finnish press, and was selected to be Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. The story is a discussion between Eero and his biological mother, where they are talking to each other and clarifying their misunderstanding and difference in present time. Eero has just come back from his visit from Sweden for Signe's funeral. The plot of the story is based on the time of the Second World War and the main character of the story is a Finnish boy. The biological father of Eero is in the Finnish army. He dies in the front and Eero's mother Kirsti falls into deep depression. As the war gets worse, Eero is sent to Sweden to a new Swedish family. In the new family, he has a father Hjalmar Jönsson, mother Signe Jönsson and a grandfather. He also meets the neighbor’s daughter Siv. Despite Hjalmar being very welcoming, Eero is not willing to stay in Sweden and wants to go back to his biological mother. Signe is frustrated in Eero's unwillingness to adjust to the situation. She is also frustrated in the language barrier and the fact that she wanted to have a small girl instead of Eero. There is a reason why she wished to have a girl; in is later revealed that she had lost her six-year-old daughter Elin 2 years earlier in an accident. LESS