Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to the pastor and enlists in the King's forces, but is wounded in the Battle of Pultava. On his return to Finland, he finds his village besieged by Cossack Captain Voronoff.
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
THE PLOT is set in medieval Finland: Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart, Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family (lesser nobility) and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife, Kaarina Fleming...
