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Fipresci Prize - Goteborg Film Festival
Tom Of Finland - Centerpiece Film
Thursday October 12th 2017, 7:00 pm
Film Details
Runtime: 114 minutes
Language: In Finnish with English subtitles
Director: Dome Karukoski
Country: 2017, Denmark
Genre: Drama, Gay, Historical Fiction, Suspense
FILM IS SOLD OUT - RUSH LINE ONLY
CENTERPIECE FILM
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 post-war Helsinki rampant with homophobic persecution with 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 inhabitations. 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.
Fipresci Prize - Goteborg Film Festival
CENTERPIECE FILM
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 post-war Helsinki rampant with homophobic persecution with 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 inhabitations. 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.
Fipresci Prize - Goteborg Film Festival
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