The Missile

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

Cast

Oona Airola

as Niina

Pyry Kähkönen

as Kai

Hannu-Pekka Björkman

as Esko

Minea Köngäs

as Jonna

Aatos Höglund

as Janne

Oliver Heikkala

as Aarne

Emma Kilpimaa

as Kaisa

Ona Kamu

as Hilkka

Sakari Kuosmanen

as Grandpa

Tommi Korpela

as Pertti Keinänen

Reviews

Brent Marchant

Who would have thought that a reserved, homespun single mother of two married to an abusive imprisoned husband could turn her life around by writing about the dangers of nuclear proliferation? But, if you’re Niina Kuittinen (Oona Airola), a young housewife living in rural Lapland, that’s precisely w...

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