Trust (1976 film)

Trust (Finnish: Luottamus; Russian: Доверие, romanized: Doverie) is a 1976 Finnish-Soviet historical drama film directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich.

[1] The film portrays the events leading up to the Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in 1917 and especially the role of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in them.

[2][3] Trust takes place at the end of December 1917, when the Finnish delegation has traveled to St. Petersburg to seek recognition for the Finland's independence.

The film shows, among other things, the following historical events: the Finnish mission bringing the Great Petition is rejected in St. Petersburg in 1899; Eugen Schauman shoots Governor General Nikolai Bobrikov in 1904; Lenin wanders in the archipelago of Turku archipelago on weak ice after escaping from Finland in 1907; Vladimir Purishkevich delivers the famous "Finis Finlandiae!"

in the Russian Duma in 1910; Parliament led by Speaker Svinhufvud refuses to accept national legislation in 1910; the parliament led by Speaker Kullervo Manner convenes in the fall of 1917 despite the dissolution order; Lenin hides in Helsinki with Kustaa Rovio in the fall of 1917; Kullervo Manner, Yrjö Sirola and K. H. Wiik attend Lenin's speeches in December 1917; and finally Lenin's government gives the document of recognition of independence to the Svinhufvud delegation in December 1917.