The Midwife

Original title: Kätilö

“A midwife's forbidden love story... separated by war, joined by love at first sight.”

Directed by Antti J. Jokinen

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.