The Missile

The Missile (2024)

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Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

Date of release
2024-02-02
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Miia Tervo

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Kemijärvi, Tallinn, Pelkosenniemi, and Lahti

The Missile is a 2024 Finnish-Estonian comedy-drama film written and directed by Miia Tervo. Based on the true story of a Soviet missile that crashed at Lake Inari in 1984, the film stars Oona Airola as Niina, an archivist for the local newspaper who has just recently left her abusive husband, and finds new confidence and strength in both her career and her personal life as she becomes increasingly drawn into the newspaper's investigation of the incident.

Production

The film was screened in 2023 as a work-in-progress at the Helsinki International Film Festival's Finnish Film Affair, where it won the award for Best Fiction Project.

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