Huntman Winter War

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on two farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, serving in a Finnish platoon.

In November 1939, when Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union, no one expected that this tiny nation could resist the largest military force in the world. And no one anticipated that 1939 would be one of the coldest winters in recorded history, what historians have called a frozen hell.

Janvier 1945. Le premier régiment français de parachutistes à se battre avec une unité américaine pour libérer l'Alsace en France. Une division alliée doit prendre la forêt bordant la ville de Jebsheim, plusieurs jours avant l'attaque qui s'appellerait plus tard le «Stalingrad français». Prisonniers du froid, de la neige et des conditions hivernales difficiles, et battu par les forces allemandes, les soldats français et américains apprennent la violence et la guerre. Dans cette lutte pour la liberté et la survie, ils seront confrontés à un ennemi inattendu.

This is a documentary about the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (Talvisota) of 1939-1940. It contains rare and never before seen footage from the official film archives (Sota-arkisto) of the Finnish army. The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the organisation.