09 Dec Mother of Mine
Mother of Mine, Finnish WWII movie
(2005) During World War II no less than 70,000 Finnish war children were evacuated to neutral Sweden and, to a lesser degree, Denmark. Most of them lived in private homes and when the war was over around 15,000 stayed with their new families.
Mother of Mine is a Finnish-Swedish film based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies, a Finnish television personality and author who was himself a Finnish war child.
The title in Finnish is Äideistä parhain; in Swedish Den bästa av mödrar.
After his father is killed in the war against the Russians, a young Finnish boy named Eero is sent to live with a Swedish family. The heartbreak he feels when he has to leave his mother is only the beginning.
This is an emotional story, one that I enjoyed very much. My mother’s parents were Swedish Finns so this bit of Scandinavian history hit home.
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