Sauna
Cleanse Your Sins
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 27, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Viktor Klimenko, Tommi Eronen, Ville Virtanen & Sonja Petajajarvi | |
Directed by | Antti-Jussi Annila | |
Screenwriting by | Iiro Kuttner | |
Composition by | Panu Aaltio | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Blomberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
52%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,343
Rating: 5/5 --
Sauna cleverly uses history and religious faith to spin a surreal tale of guilt, sin, and redemption.
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Father Son Holy Gore
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Director AJ Annila bends the tone before our eyes ... We follow his lead and don't give a damn if it all amounts to nonsense.
Film Threat
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Similar in style to the brilliant Let the Right One In, this story of blame and belief, terror and trepidation uses an unfamiliar era and event to lay the foundation for one undeniable work of fear.
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PopMatters
Rating: 0/4 --
...one of the most repugnant and flat-out contemptible cinematic experiences to come around in quite some time.
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Product Description:
JADE WARRIOR director Antti-Jussi Annila crafts this transcendentalist shocker set in 1595, and following two brothers as they descend into a world where there is no such thing as salvation. Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia have just reached an uneasy truce. In the wake of their fighting, Finland has become a wasteland. Conquered Finnish brothers Knut and Eerik are polar opposites; one is a hardened warrior whose mind has been twisted by the horrors of war, the other is a gentle scientist with no use for fighting. Both have been assigned the task of denoting the new border between Finland and Russia, though they're about to commit a sin that will haunt them both for the rest of their days. After leaving a young girl to die an excruciating death, Knut and Erik forge ahead into an uncharted swamp, eventually reaching an unmapped town where their mere presence awakens a force of unspeakable evil. The girl has returned to haunt them, a horror that both brothers attempt to escape by washing away their sins in a mysterious sauna. But this sauna holds a terrifying secret, and in this godforsaken land there is no mercy for men who would permit such atrocities to be committed against a mere innocent.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 128,681
- UPC: 030306930992
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