''Under en steinhimmel'' (Under a Stone Sky; ) is a Soviet- Norwegian war film directed by Knut Andersen,

Igor Maslennikov Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (; 26 October 1931 – 17 September 2022)
was a Soviet and Russian film director.

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, and

Stanislav Rostotsky Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky (; 21 April 1922, Rybinsk – 10 August 2001, Vyborgsky District) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. Early years Stanislav Rostotsky was ...

.''Norsk filmografi'': ''Under en steinhimmel''.
/ref> The film is a fictionalized portrayal of historical events.

Plot

The film tells the story of people that moved into the mine shafts at

Bjørnevatn , , , or is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies about south of the town of Kirkenes and about west of the Norway-Russia border. The village has a couple of suburbs including Hesseng to the nort ...

in eastern

Finnmark Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

during the Second World War. They sought to escape the evacuation and burning of Finnmark. During the winter of 1944, the mines had a population between 2,000 and 3,000. They faced the danger of the German forces hearing about this and taking action before the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

managed to drive them out of the area.Норвежские диверсанты и советские освободители. 2014. ''Тюменская область сегодня'' (October 19).
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''Norsk filmografi'': ''Under en steinhimmel''
1974 films 1970s war drama films 1970s Soviet films 1970s Russian-language films 1974 multilingual films 1970s Norwegian-language films Soviet multilingual films Soviet war drama films Soviet World War II films Norwegian multilingual films Norwegian World War II films Films directed by Knut Andersen Films set in Norway Russian-language war drama films Norwegian-language war drama films {{WWII-drama-film-stub