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''Sign of the Beast'' () is a 1981 Finnish
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
co-written and directed by
Jaakko Pakkasvirta Jaakko Juhani Pakkasvirta (28 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. It is based on the 1946 book ''A Gloomy Soliloquy'' () by Olavi Paavolainen, based on his war diaries written during the
Winter War The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peac ...
and the
Continuation War The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 ...
. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
54th Academy Awards The 54th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1981 and took place on March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMP ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Cast

* Esko Salminen as Kaarlo * Irina Milan as Karin * Tom Wentzel as Helmut von Stein * Hannu Lauri as Olavi *
Vesa-Matti Loiri Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. Loiri made a strong i ...
as Usko * Jukka-Pekka Palo as Lieutenant Valonen * Esa Pakarinen Jr. as War Photographer * Martti Pennanen as General * Yrjö Parjanne as Captain * Kalevi Kahra as Seargeant Major


See also

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List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
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List of Finnish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...


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* 1981 films 1981 drama films Films based on non-fiction books Finnish drama films 1980s Finnish-language films 1980s Finnish films Finnish-language drama films {{1980s-drama-film-stub