Synopsis

In Murmansk on a Chevy tells the somewhat lighthearted tale of two Finnish men travelling by car into the navy city of Murmansk in the Soviet Union in 1968. During this journey Kalevi Mielty, a photographer from Isokyrö, and his colleague Esko Luoma from Laihia shot an 8mm film. Even though they made their trip during the Cold War, the men appear to have been able to move freely around the city, thus presenting a unique view into a Soviet garrison town. Kalevi and Esko travelled with an American-made Chevrolet, which certainly caught the eye of the locals in the Soviet Union. This documentary deals with that period of Cold War, and simultaneously wonders how two South Ostrobothnian men were able to travel to one of the most important garrison towns in the Soviet Union.