

In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired first president, Ståhlberg. The Finnish people were divided in the aftermath of the civil war, and the political atmosphere was turbulent and tense. However, the kidnapping went wrong right from the start when the incompetent henchmen recruited for the job were forced to take the president's stubborn wife, Ester Ståhlberg, with them.

Pertti Sveholm
President Ståhlberg
Lead
Riitta Havukainen
Ester Ståhlberg

Jussi Vatanen
Jaeger colonel Eero Kuussaari

Aku Sipola
Colonel Kurt Wallenius

Pääru Oja
Colonel Viklund

Akseli Kouki
Colonel Inkala

Tom Rejström
Colonel Jarvinen

Elias Salonen
Jukka Janné
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