The war epic runs for a cool 265 minutes.

Amazon Prime viewers are in luck as an acclaimed war film is available to stream on the platform . The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka and based on the 1984 novel Talvisota by Antti Tuuri.

It is set in the 1939 Winter War and tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment from Southern Ostrobothnia fighting on the Karelian Isthmus. It focuses mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT

The Winter War was released in Finland on November 30, 1989, and it was Finland's most popular film with over 600,000 admissions. It won six Jussi Awards and was Finland's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards , but was never accepted as a nominee.

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