Documentary series: Operation Mannerheim The documentary series is a story about the making of the film that created a huge sensation. It aspires to answer the questions of why and how the Yle production Marshal of Finland was made. Movie: The Marshall of Finland This film combines the African story-telling tradition and the Finnish myth of a hero whose real life is still more or less unknown to us Finns. It is a modern interpretation of the life of Gustaf Mannerheim, made by a Kenyan-Finnish-Estonian team. It’s a movie about a successful soldier, a national hero, who in the end is left without love.