In The Winter Warriors, Olivier Norek revives the icy silence of the Finnish forests during the Winter war of 1939—a forgotten front where rifles froze, but not the will of a nation. Against all expectations, Finland resisted the Soviet onslaught with nothing more than skis, cunning, and courage. At the heart of this stark and haunting narrative stands Simo Häyhä, the legendary sniper known as the White Death, who becomes a chilling symbol of one man’s ability to shift the tide of history.
Olivier Norek answered our questions in an in-house interview.