Canadian Dimension, March 1st, 2005
Letters from Karelia
Directed by Kelly Saxburg
National Film Board, 2004
Letters from Karelia tells the story of the Red Finns of northern Ontario. Based on a wide cross-section of interviews and an insightful narrative, the film cross-cuts between present and past, and between Canada and Russia, to recall the history of the radical Finn forestry workers of the region of Thunder Bay.
Through the prism of one family, the Pitkanens, the film recalls the emigration of these left-wing emigrants in search of a better life working in the Canadian forest industry. The relationship between the s...
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