Tom of Finland

Name: Tom of Finland
Genre: Drama, Queer, Biographical
Released: 2022-04-29
Cast: Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland, Alf Myreen, Fabian Puregger

A biography of the gay icon and artist who changed the world with his drawings and made it think differently about difference.

Tom of Finland

Dome Karukoski

Denmark, Finland, Sweden 2017

Finnish

Czech

116 min.

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This film is available until 3. 4. 2027 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

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About

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 peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual 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 inhibitions. 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.

Credits

Director: Dome Karukoski

Screenplay: Aleksi Bardy, Dome Karukoski

Cinematography: Lasse Frank Johannessen

Music: Lasse Enersen, Hildur Guðnadóttir

Sound: Christian Holm, Niklas Skarp, Erik Clauss

Editing: Harri Ylönen

Production Design: Christian Olander

Producer: Aleksi Bardy, Miia Haavisto, Annika Sucksdorff

Co-production: Gunnar Carlsson, Caroline Eybye, Miriam Nørgaard, Simon Perry, Malin Söderlund, Ingvar Þórðarson

Costumes: Anna Vilppunen

Cast: Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland, Alf Myreen, Fabian Puregger, Lauri Tilkanen, Roope Karisto, Taisto Oksanen, Emanuel Claesson, Henri Keränen

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