Forgetting Lenin

• Finland.
• Direction: Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen.
• Production: Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen / Raina Film Festival Distribution.
• Screenplay: Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen.
• Photography: Antti Polojärvi.
• Edition: Einari Paakkanen.

For many Finns, Vladimir Lenin is to thank for Finland’s independence from Russia in 1917. But with Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, citizens of a small Finnish town of Kotka near the Russian border, have to re-evaluate their views about the fate of Finland’s last remaining Lenin statue.