Tom of Finland
UK Cinema Release Date:
Friday 11th August 2017
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Starring:
Jakob Oftebro, Jessica Grabowsky, Werner Daehn, Jimmy Shaw, Lauri Tilkanen and Þorsteinn Bachmann
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Directed By:
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Written By:
Noam Andrews, Aleksi Bardy, Mark Alton Brown, Dome Karukoski, Susanna Luoto, Kauko Röyhkä and Mia Ylönen
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Produced By:
Aleksi Bardy, Gunnar Carlsson, Caroline Eybye, Miia Haavisto, Sophie Mahlo, Miriam Nørgaard, Simon Perry, Annika Sucksdorff, Malin Söderlund and Ingvar Þórðarson
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Genres:
Biography, Drama
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Language:
Finnish
Synopsis
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specializing in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work - made famous by his signature Tom of Finland - became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.