Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
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Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen / Tom of Finland
Lauri Tilkanen as Veli
Jessica Grabowsky as Kaija
Taisto Oksanen as Alijoki
Seumas F. Sargent as Doug
Jakob Oftebro as Jack
Niklas Hogner as Kake
Chris Myland as Security Person
Alf Myreen as AD Artist
Fabian Puregger as Tom's Dream Cop
Roope Karisto as Young Man
Emanuel Claesson as Man in Doorway
Henri Keränen as Radio Operator / Soldier, Chorus
Siim Maaten as Russian Paratrooper
Leif Edlund as Moustache Man
Werner Daehn as Müller
Christian Sandström as Kari
Martin Bahne as Gabriel
Kari Hietalahti as Sahlin
Ksenia Lelesh as Maria
Ida Koski as Heidi
Anders Sanzén as Mikael Berg
Sanne Broström as
Niko Wirtanen as Hansa-baarin portsari
Jari Forsman as Poliisi puistossa
Norbert Braun as Rajavartija
Erwin Bruhn as Vastaanottovirkailija Berliinissä
Martin Bergman as Saksalainen virkailija
Thomas Olausson as Yksinäinen poliisi
Paavo Pyykkönen as Juha
Sten Sture Olander as Suutari
Pekka Immonen as Räätäli
Meri Nenonen as Rouva Alijoki
Jari Tolkki as Konstaapeli Alijoen talolla
Þorsteinn Bachmann as Editor-in-chief
Frank Michael Jork as Valokuvaaja
David Nolden as Young Doug
C.T. Brauner as Doug's father
Jimmy Shaw as Poliisi Los Angelesissa
Matthew Way as Nimikirjoituksen pyytäjä
Haymon Maria Buttinger as Mannheim
Margit Trennedal as Kangasmyyjä
Amelia Hoy as Nurse
Manfred Böll as Zagat
Liliana Lindner as Chava
Harriet Pasternak as Taidekoulun opettaja
Eric Rusch as IML:n juontaja
Fred Baube as (voice)
Celina Callahan as (voice)
Erich Silva as (voice)
Julian Herring as (voice)
Lawrence Dolkart as (voice)
Leena Asp as (voice)
Mark B. Odom as (voice)
Rich Lyons as (voice)
Sophia Albow as (voice)
Steven Stewart as (voice)
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