Tom of Finland (2017) Tom of Finland
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Cast
Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Jimmy Shaw, Pekka Strang, Lauri Tilkanen, Troy T. Scott, Porsteinn Bachmann, Kari Hietalahti, Jessica Grabowsky, Seumas F. Sargent, Jan Bohme, Jan Lindwall, Leif Edlund, Taisto Oksanen, Siim Maaten
Annotation
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, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising 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.
- Toms no Somijas
- Том из Финляндии
