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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Pekka StrangTouko Laaksonen / Tom of Finland
Lauri TilkanenVeli
Jessica GrabowskyKaija
Taisto OksanenAlijoki
Seumas F. Sargent
Jakob OftebroJack
Niklas HognerKakeExplore the crew
- Director
- Dome Karukoski
- Writer
- Aleksi Bardy
- Producer
- Miia Haavisto
- Producer
- Annika Sucksdorff
- Producer
- Aleksi Bardy
- Original Music Composer
- Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Editor
- Harri Ylönen
- Original Music Composer
- Lasse Enersen
- Director of Photography
- Lasse Frank Johannessen