Mother of Mine (film)

Mother of Mine Finnish ideist parhain , Swedish Den bsta av mdrar is a 2005 FinnishSwedish film directed by Klaus Hr. The film is based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies. It received good reviews from the Finnish press, and was selected to be Finlands 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 Kirsti, 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 Signes Swedish mother 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 Eero Lahti. The biological father of Eero KariPekka Toivonen is in the Finnish army. He dies in the front and Eeros 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 Jnsson, mother Signe Jnsson and a grandfather who cannot speak but hears everything. He also meets the neighbors daughter Siv. ........

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