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Operation Alaska (2017)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 5M

Director : Anna-Reeta Eksymä, Tommi Hakko

Synopsis

Operation Alaska is a fictional documentary and extensive web series based on real American plans and proposals to evacuate Finns to Alaska between 1940 and 1944 in the event of a Soviet invasion of Finland.

Actors

Bruce J. Oreck
Bruce J. Oreck
Narrator (voice)

Crews

Anna-Reeta Eksymä
Anna-Reeta Eksymä
Director
Anna-Reeta Eksymä
Anna-Reeta Eksymä
Writer
Tommi Hakko
Tommi Hakko
Writer
Tommi Hakko
Tommi Hakko
Director

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