Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland

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Director:Dome Karukoski
Cast:Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Pekka Strang
Premiere:14. November 2017
Length:120 minutes
Genre:Drama, Biographical

Director: Dome Karukoski  •  Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Pekka Strang

The lavish biographic drama reflects the life and work of one of the most significant representatives of gay culture in the 20th century, Finnish artist Touko Valio Laaksonen, known worldwide as Tom of Finland. His illustrations, full of homoerotic tension and pornographic scenes, portraying masculine alpha-males with gargantuan genitals, have become legendary. They appeared way before the advent of gay film porn in the second half of the 20th century, and often drew inspiration from the Finnish artist's fantasies. The acclaimed Finnish director Dome Karukoski contrasts a powerful story of an individual and the general history of the 20th century, using the personal history to address important topics related to the gay community's life in the 20th century (war traumas, persecution of gays, the AIDS epidemic, etc.). For the very first time in a live-action film, he focuses on a legend that might have influenced even your sexlife without your realizing it.

Length: 120 min

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 14. November 2017
World premiere date: 24. February 2017

Country of origin:

  • Finland
  • Sweden

Director: Dome Karukoski  •  Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Werner Daehn, Pekka Strang

The lavish biographic drama reflects the life and work of one of the most significant representatives of gay culture in the 20th century, Finnish artist Touko Valio Laaksonen, known worldwide as Tom of Finland. His illustrations, full of homoerotic tension and pornographic scenes, portraying masculine alpha-males with gargantuan genitals, have become legendary. They appeared way before the advent of gay film porn in the second half of the 20th century, and often drew inspiration from the Finnish artist's fantasies. The acclaimed Finnish director Dome Karukoski contrasts a powerful story of an individual and the general history of the 20th century, using the personal history to address important topics related to the gay community's life in the 20th century (war traumas, persecution of gays, the AIDS epidemic, etc.). For the very first time in a live-action film, he focuses on a legend that might have influenced even your sexlife without your realizing it.

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 14. November 2017
World premiere date: 24. February 2017

Country of origin:

  • Finland
  • Sweden