--- title: 'The Unknown Soldier (1985)' type: 'film' director: 'Rauni Mollberg' released: '1985-12-06' runtime_minutes: 197 genres: - 'War' countries: - 'Finland' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-unknown-soldier-1985' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090215/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Unknown Soldier (1985) 1985 · 197 min · War · Finland Original title: Tuntematon sotilas ## Synopsis The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish film from 1985 directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is based on the 1954 best selling Finnish novel of the same name written by Väinö Linna. It is the second film adaptation of Linna's novel, the first one being the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine. The third film adaptation of the same novel was released in 2017, directed by Aku Louhimies. ## Credits - **Director:** [Rauni Mollberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/rauni-mollberg) - **Screenplay:** [Rauni Mollberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/rauni-mollberg), [Väinö Linna](https://cinepixo.com/people/vaino-linna), [Veikko Aaltonen](https://cinepixo.com/people/veikko-aaltonen) - **Producer:** [Rauni Mollberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/rauni-mollberg) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ahti Sonninen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ahti-sonninen) ## Cast - [Risto Tuorila](https://cinepixo.com/people/risto-tuorila) as Vilho Koskela - [Veikko Tiitinen](https://cinepixo.com/people/veikko-tiitinen) as Kaarna - [Pertti Koivula](https://cinepixo.com/people/pertti-koivula) as Yrjö Lahtinen - [Pirkka-Pekka Petelius](https://cinepixo.com/people/pirkka-pekka-petelius) as Urho Hietanen - [Pekka Ketonen](https://cinepixo.com/people/pekka-ketonen) as Jorma Kariluoto - [Kari Väänänen](https://cinepixo.com/people/kari-vaananen) as Lammio - [Hannu Kivioja](https://cinepixo.com/people/hannu-kivioja) as Riitaoja - [Seppo Juusonen](https://cinepixo.com/people/seppo-juusonen) as Susi - [Ossi-Ensio Korvuo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ossi-ensio-korvuo) as Määttä - [Pauli Poranen](https://cinepixo.com/people/pauli-poranen) as Lehto - [Paavo Liski](https://cinepixo.com/people/paavo-liski) as Antero Rokka - [Mika Mäkelä](https://cinepixo.com/people/mika-makela) as Rahikainen - [Tero Niva](https://cinepixo.com/people/tero-niva) as Vanhala ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-unknown-soldier-1985 Film facts: Wikidata (Q4357961); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.