Description: 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 men around him, even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specializing 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.
Director: Dome Karukoski
Writer: Aleksi Bardy, Dome Karukoski, Mark Alton Brown
Actors: Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland
Rating: 6.8
Vote: 6018
Runtime: 117 min
Language: English
Genres: Biography, Drama
FileSize: 1.81 GB