The Guarded Village 1944 (Finnish: Vartioitu kylä 1944) is a 1978 film directed by Timo Linnasalo [fi].
Patrol man Jaakko Tulivaara (Timo Torikka) returns to his home for holiday, when killing people has damaged his mental state.
His home village is guarded by a Finnish military group led by Sergeant Tolvanen (Antti Litja).
In the village is also a wounded Soviet spy (Raimo Grönberg), whose family had moved from Finland to Russia a long time before the war.
The film was considered to be a nice novelty,[3] later it was also mentioned to be one of the nicest first direction-films.