Movie

Sauna

2008 · 83 min

A slow, oppressive descent into guilt and supernatural dread, steeped in mud, fog, and unspoken sins.

Tagline: Cleanse Your Sins.
Overview: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
How it feels: Bleak, eerie, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, redemption, isolation, death
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
redemption
isolation
death
faith
Places: countryside
wilderness
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild