Review: Ne kahdeksan valittua

The long shadow of the swastika

I knew that Heikki Ylikangas was a brilliant writer. Still, I had
It is a surprise how well he has been able to put what he has to say in the form of drama.
The eight chosen ones are based on historical facts. Ylikangas does not
preaching or giving a presentation. He makes good questions and
encourages the viewer to think for themselves.

The shadow of the swastika reaches very far. The guilt of the Finns, or
Innocence is, of course, one of the key themes of the play.
However, Ylikangas’ perspective is much broader. He did not in vain
In the script, emphasize the fictional nature of the play. The eight
A study on the boundary conditions of morality and ethics has also been chosen.

He has written one of the key lines in the Soviet desanti
Kerttu Nuorteva’s (Vuokko Hovatta) mouth. Nuorteva justifies Stalin
persecutions by destroying them in the approaching great war
People potentially disloyal to the Soviet Union.

Ylikangas Nuorteva thinks that the Finnish Whites do exactly the same
when he defeated the rebellion of the Reds in the spring of 1918. It was not a question of revenge
spring, but in the event of a Soviet attack, they became disloyal
systematic liquidation of suspected citizens.

The first victims of which war are Rwanda’s million murdered
Africans or the hundreds of thousands of people from the current massacre in Darfur
Are they killed? Why is the killing still going on, and who is it really
Interested? These are good questions when we start to evaluate
the guilt of historical figures.

In recent years, historians have visited the
and the consequences. An individual can kill another
in anger. To murder millions, you need a machine and a lot of
freezing cold logical consideration. Genocides are not committed in emotional turmoil or
by chance.

Of course, logical thinking does not lead to a rational conclusion if
The starting points of the thinking are absurd. Probably no other factor
damaged the Germans’ own war effort as much as
The extermination of the Jews.

This is also what the play’s Jew Stiller (Aarno Sulkanen) wonders. Why
God allows such absurd and brutal stupidity to happen?
People’s actions are facts of history. There are many motives for these acts
more difficult to document reliably.

From the point of view of the play’s theme, however, this is an essential question.
In Western courts, the reprehensibility of an act depends on its motive.

Of course, it was impossible to understand Finland’s wartime leadership at the time
something that we still can’t really understand. Ylikangas brings
in his play, he nicely brings out the irrational side of this history
Himmler (Jouko Klemettilä).

It is probably telling that the character is somehow comical. Contemporaries
Himmler probably didn’t laugh too much.

The steering is tenacious. The young Milko Lehto is a professional. Episodic
The internal tension between the scenes of the unfolding story is good.

And what is it like directing when you have brilliant actors to direct.
However, even from this group, one stands out above the others. Jari Pehkonen SpongeBob
Kastari may not look like the real Professor Paavo Kastari at all,
but the character in the play, Kastari, is nevertheless very believable.
By its very existence, the character proves the role of the actor Pehkonen and
playwright Ylikangas’s perceptiveness and knowledge of people
. In the play Kastari, the public and the private intersect. The role is
Really great.

The eight chosen ones were commissioned by the Helsinki City Theatre. Ylikangas
conducted a report two years ago at the request of the Prime Minister’s Office
whether a thorough investigation should be carried out on wartime renditions.
The Government started with Elina Sana’s 2003
The Surrendered book.

Ylikangas recommended that a study be carried out, and the play is based on his
research carried out for its recommendation.