Finnish 1942 Color Film

[Mangrove]

I took these screenshots from Finnish documentary film "Värivälähdyksiä Äänisen rannoilta" (1942) or "Colors from the shores of Onega". It pictures the life of soldiers and civilians at occupied East Karelia during the war. This ten minute "clip" is the only known color film to be shot at war zone. It can be found from Finnish newsreel DVD "Jatkosodan katsaukset II: Kamerat asemissa" (2009) among other wartime films.

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[WTIO]

Nice phots there. But sorry, occupied Eastern Karelia - the old couple in the second shot look like they are moving out, but the rest of them look like they are on summer holidays? Diving from dive-board reminds me of the beginning of the film 'Ambush' :p

It was during the re-occupation of Karelia by FDF during the Continuation War and Karelians could return home (briefly)? I thoguht they were all evacuated soon after the armistice that ended the Winter War?

[Mangrove]

Nice phots there. But sorry, occupied Eastern Karelia - the old couple in the second shot look like they are moving out, but the rest of them look like they are on summer holidays? Diving from dive-board reminds me of the beginning of the film 'Ambush' :p


The couple and the two girls are the only civilians in the screenshots. All other are Finnish soldiers. The film was shot at Petroskoi, a part what is now the Republic of Karelia. Ethnic Russians and such were transferred to camps so the people you'll see in the photos are probably Finnic origin.
"Ambush" takes place two or three hundred kilometers north of Petroskoi, at and around Rukajärvi.



It was during the re-occupation of Karelia by FDF during the Continuation War and Karelians could return home (briefly)? I thoguht they were all evacuated soon after the armistice that ended the Winter War?

East Karelia is not the same as Karelian Isthmus or Ladoga Karelia. Last two were part of Republic of Finland before year 1940. Civilians were evacuated from these provinces in 1939 and some returned between 1941-1944 and re-evacuated back to Finland.

[Basillicus]

It was during the re-occupation of Karelia by FDF during the Continuation War and Karelians could return home (briefly)? I thoguht they were all evacuated soon after the armistice that ended the Winter War?

Yeah, they returned quite quickly to their homes after the area was secured. My grandmother has told me about this, she went there with her father and some others while the rest of the family remained where they had been relocated. They had to rebuild the houses, plant crops etc. but it didn't take too long until the living conditions were almost normal again. I'm not sure though if the whole family lived there at any point. Anyway they weren't too happy when they were evacuated again in 1944.

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Sorry but the swimming pictures remind me of a certain infamous MP.net airsofters thread from a few years back.

[greendzflash]

i am currently reading Black eidlewiess, which is about a German Machine gunner who was in Karelia for most of his time in the war.

interesting