The Border (2007 film)

The Border
Film poster
FinnishRaja 1918
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RussianГраница 1918
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Directed byLauri Törhönen
Written byAleksi Bardy
Lauri Törhönen
Produced byJörn Donner
Jarkko Hentula
StarringMartin Bahne
Minna Haapkylä
Tommi Korpela
Leonid Mozgovoy
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
CinematographyEsa Vuorinen
Edited byKimmo Kohtamäki
Music bySergei Yevtushenko
Production
companies
Border Productions
The Hermitage Bridge Studio
Studio 217
Distributed byFS Film
Release dates
  • 30 November 2007 (2007-11-30) (Finland)
  • 17 December 2008 (2008-12-17) (Russia)
Running time
114 minutes
CountriesFinland
Russia
LanguagesFinnish, Russian, Swedish, German
Budget€2.1 million
Box office€382,151 (Finland)

The Border (Finnish: Raja 1918, Russian: Граница 1918, romanizedGranitsa 1918, lit.'Border 1918') is a 2007 Finnish-Russian war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen. Set in the spring of 1918, right after the Finnish Civil War, the film is about a Finnish officer who is sent to the village of Rajajoki to form a border between Finland and Soviet Russia.

The film's main character Carl von Munck is based on Kai Donner and his experiences during the post-civil war period. His son Jörn Donner is one of the film's producers.