Among Wild Birds (1927)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 19M
Director : Heikki Aho, Björn Soldan
Synopsis
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.
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