Seamstress

Name: Seamstress
Director: Ville Suhonen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-09-25
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Martta Koskinen, Vera Kiiskinen, Pekka Milonoff, Laura Birn, Elena Leeve

Directed by Ville Suhonen

Documentary

20151h 33m7.2

Overview

A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.