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Screen Rant is proud to present an exclusive clip from the new Finnish series Helsinki Syndrome, streaming exclusively on Topic beginning on February 16. The 8-episode thriller follows entrepreneur and family man Elias Karo, whose vendetta against the government causes him to take four journalists hostage in order to uncover a decades-long deceit that ruined his family and along with far too many others. When a bank manager and a district court judge made off with his family’s possessions in the '90s, an event that was sanctioned by the Finnish government, hundreds of others were affected and cannot escape the cycle of poverty to this day. who find themselves ineligible for any Covid assistance, bankrupting their businesses. Elias hopes that by holding the journalists captive, he can expose the corruption and conspiracy to keep Finland’s working poor from getting ahead.

Helsinki Syndrome is directed by Juuso Syrjä (who...

"We will find the truth; we will find the culprits." Topic has revealed an official US trailer for a streaming series from Finland titled Helsinki Syndrome, a riff on the classic "Stockholm Syndrome" term. The story involves a crime from the past being connected to a current hostage situation in Finland. Entrepreneur Elias Karo takes four journalists hostage in order to reveal that 30 years ago, a bank manager and a district court judge took his family's possessions with the government's blessing and caused a still ongoing family tragedy. Elias, a working class family man is deeply haunted by the economic strife his family endured in the 90s. To settle a decades-long vendetta, he holds 4 journalists hostage to expose bank and government corruption while concealing an ulterior motive. The series stars Kseniya Peter Franzén, Oona Airola, and Taneli Mäkelä. This definitely looks like a made-for-tv series, but it has an intriguing...