Aleksi Suomesta
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Aleksi Suomesta is a true story about the Finnish professional soldier Aleksi Lysander (1989-2024). The play is Ari-Pekka Lahti’s adaptation of Tuomas Kyrö’s book of the same name (WSOY, 2023), which was also nominated for the Finlandia Prize for non-fiction.
The son of a Finnish mother and a Senegalese father who spent his childhood on his grandparents’ farm in Oulu decides to become a soldier and leaves for the Foreign Legion at the age of 18. He serves in Afghanistan and several African countries. He will be among the first volunteers to leave for Ukraine in 2022, return to Finland from time to time, but will leave for Ukraine again in the autumn of 2024, where he will pass away in the last days of the year.
The play was prepared in cooperation with Aleksi Lysander. He hoped that the performance would be carried out and that it would be as honest as possible about the aftermath of war and how war is never the right solution.
“Aleksi Suomesta is a performance you rarely, if ever, see.”
Helsingin Sanomat 11.10.2025
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