Produktion, Bavaria Film, Perathon Film-und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Royal Film, 1992A group of German soldiers are resting in warm sunny Italy after fighting in North Africa. ‘The Unknown Soldier’ (2017)Aku Louhimies/Elokuvaosakeyhtiö Suomi, 2017This 2017 movie is the third adaptation of the novel by Finnish writer Väinö Linna about the everyday life of the Finnish army during the so-called ‘Continuation War’. Finland then joined Hitler's campaign against the USSR to regain the territories lost in the Winter War and, at the same time, to annex Soviet Karelia. At the same time, the Finnish soldiers are also not angels – the movie includes a scene of a captured Soviet soldier being shot without trial or investigation. This West German movie based on a novel by Fritz Wess conveys well the difficult atmosphere of the Battle of Stalingrad and the mood that reigned in the German troop positions.