Born American

The Finnish Board of Film Classification initially banned the movie due to its excessive violence and anti-Soviet elements.

In his 2008 book Kohti sinipunaa, Juhani Suomi revealed that the request to ban the movie originated from Vladimir Sobolev, the Soviet Union's ambassador to Finland.

They make the unfortunate decision to cross the borderline into the Soviet Union, and end up clashing with corrupt leaders in a small village before being arrested and taken to a prison facility.

The prisoner arranges a meeting between Savoy and a VIP prisoner known as The Admiral, a former secret agent who has comfortable living space and luxuries because the KGB wants him to defect to their side, unaware that his plan is to release all of his American AND Russian secrets once he escapes with Savoy's health.

The fixer performs a mercy killing on an invalid KC, and Savoy rages at the loss before starting his own escape mission.