White Hunger - a movie script idea and a screenplay. Sweden vs Russia, in a time of Napoleon wars - 2 drafts
Title: WHITE HUNGER A historical war thriller (1808–1809) where battle is fast, politics is cynical, and “the plague” in the north eats armies and families alike. Historical spine (what the film teaches, without turning into a lecture) The Finnish War (1808–1809) was part of the Napoleonic Wars . After the Treaty of Tilsit (July 1807) , Russia aligned with Napoleon and pressured Sweden to join the Continental System; Sweden refused, and Russia invaded Finland. In Finland, the real mass killer wasn’t only bullets: dysentery and typhus tore through soldiers and civilians in 1808–1809 , accounting for a huge share of deaths in the crisis years. Sweden’s failure contributed to the 1809 coup and a new political order; Finland became the Grand Duchy of Finland under Russia with significant autonomy. Logline As Russia’s invasion pushes north through Finland, a Swedish-Finnish retreat collapses into winter starvation and epidemic disease. A Finnish healer fight...