November 1939. Stalin befiehlt den Angriff auf Finnland, an der Grenze marschieren 500.000 sowjetische Soldaten auf. Für das kleine Finnland beginnt der Kampf gegen einen übermächtigen Feind. Die Brüder Martti und Paavo aus Österbotten schließen sich dem Infanterieregiment JR23 an, welches nach Karelien abkommandiert wird. Bei minus 40 Grad erleben sie die Hölle des Winterkriegs in der verlustreichen Schlacht von Taipale. Den russischen Panzern und Flugzeugen können die Finnen nur ihre einfachen Waffen und selbstgebastelten Molotow-Cocktails entgegen halten. Viele von Marttis Kameraden finden einen eisigen Tod, die verbleibenden Männer werden an die Mannerheim-Linie verlegt. Diese gilt es um jeden Preis zu halten, denn wenn die Mannerheim-Linie fällt, fällt ganz Finnland…

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.

Ten-year-old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.