Thursday, September 05, 2024

Burned by thousand dawns

The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion happened in Lapua in 1976. It is Finland’s worst industrial disaster. 40 workers dead and 60 injured. Lapua 1976, the movie, directed by Toni Kurkimäki, is a wishy-washy love story of two workers in the factory. They could have carved so much more of the incident, but the catastrophe is just a sideshow.

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Somewhere beyond the sea

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