Sauna

In 1595, the long war between Sweden and Russia has ended, and a commission sets out through the marshland to mark the new border. Among its members are two Finnish brothers: Knut, a veteran hardened by years of fighting, and Eerik, a scholar who stayed at university while the war was fought. The brothers carry guilt for what the war demanded of them, and on the journey they commit another terrible act that leaves one of them haunted. They come to a village that appears on no map, where a stone sauna is said to wash away the sins of body and soul. Seeking relief, they enter it.

Antti-Jussi Annila directed the film, his first feature, released in 2008 and followed by The Eternal Road in 2017. Iiro Küttner wrote the screenplay, and Jesse Fryckman and Tero Kaukomaa produced. Ville Virtanen plays Eerik and Tommi Eronen plays Knut, with Viktor Klimenko, Rain Tolk, Kari Ketonen and Sonja Petäjäjärvi in supporting roles among a credited cast of 28. The Finnish-Czech production runs 83 minutes and belongs to the horror genre.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds a rating of 6.2 from roughly 7,800 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.2, from a much smaller base of about 135 votes.