He became a Sweden & Finland's Lion-Russian bear Hybrid. ^^;

Outside of Finland many people see Mannerheim as the military dictator, who was ally of Axis Powers, without knowing the truth behind of the Field Marshal himself.

Mannerheim was a Finnish military leader and statesman. Widely regarded by Finns and non-Finns alike as the father of the modern independent state of Finland, Mannerheim served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Regent of Finland (1918–1919) Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and the sixth President of Finland (1944–1946).

Mannerheim was only one who received the unique title of Marshal of Finland. Officially not an active military rank but an honorary rank that can be bestowed upon 'especially distinguished generals'. Title has been specially created for him, although it was fully symbolic title and his rank insignia remained the same. ( Remind Metal Gear game's Naked Snake, who received title of Big Boss. "The Greatest soldier that ever lived". )

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Mannerheim was born in the Grand Principality of Finland, Russian Empire, , into a family of Swedish-speaking aristocrats who had settled in Finland in the late 18th century.
Mannerheim made a career in the Imperial Russian Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant general. He also had a prominent place in the ceremonies for Tsar Nicholas II's coronation and later had several private meetings with the Russian Tsar.
Civil War
After the Bolshevik revolution, Finland declared its independence but was soon embroiled in civil war between the pro-Bolshevik "Reds" and the "Whites" who were the troops of the Senate of Finland. Mannerheim was appointed the military chief of the Whites.
Winter War
Twenty years later, When negotiations with the Soviet Union failed in 1939, Mannerheim withdrew his resignation on 17 October. At the age of 72, he became commander-in-chief of the Finnish armed forces after the Soviet attack on 30 November.
In a letter to his daughter Sophie, he stated, "I had not wanted to undertake the responsibility of commander-in-chief, as my age and my health entitled me, but I had to yield to appeals from the President of the Republic and the government, and now for the fourth time I am at war."

Mannerheim quickly organised his headquarters in Mikkeli. Mannerheim spent most of the Winter War and Continuation War in his Mikkeli headquarters but made many visits to the front.
Continuation War
Before the Continuation War, the Third Reich offered Mannerheim command over Reich troops in Finland, around 80,000 men. Mannerheim recognized that this would mean subordinating himself to Hitler. As Mannerheim wanted at all costs to avoid this, he refused the offer. Mannerheim kept relations with Adolf Hitler's government as formal as possible and successfully opposed proposals for an alliance. If Mannerheim had not also firmly refused to let his troops participate in the Siege of Leningrad, they would have ended up becoming an integral part of the siege.

Mannerheim's 75th birthday, 4 June 1942, was a major occasion. The government granted him the unique title of ”Marshal of Finland”. So far he has been the only person to receive the title.
A surprise visit by Hitler in honour of Mannerheim's birthday was less pleasing to him and caused some embarrassment. Mannerheim did not want to meet Hitler in his headquarters in Mikkeli or in Helsinki, as it would have seemed like an official state visit. The meeting took place near Imatra, in south-eastern Finland, and was arranged in secrecy.

Mannerheim's wartime record as the Finnish commander-in-chief is not easy to assess. Even to this day, Mannerheim's immense prestige made criticism of his conduct of war almost tantamount to treason (especially as the criticism often came from Soviet sources and Finnish communists). It is perhaps easiest to divide Mannerheim's role in two: Mannerheim the military commander and Mannerheim the politician.
Even though he was a soldier, and was not supposed to take part in politics, Mannerheim could not help but be a highly political figure. A vital question during the war was when to make peace with the Soviet Union. Too early would mean that Third Reich would be in a position to retaliate. Too late risked Soviet occupation of Finland.
Mannerheim was kept, as it were, in reserve, in order to potentially take the leadership of the nation and lead it to peace. Mannerheim played this role skilfully; he had a clear vision of how Finland should conduct its war in the sensitive situation when the war's ultimate end was unclear. He knew how to treat the Germans to secure as much military support as possible without involving Finland in any binding treaties.
As a military commander Mannerheim was generally successful. Under his leadership the Finnish Defence Forces saved Finland from Soviet occupation. Mannerheim took care not to waste the lives of his soldiers, and avoided unnecessary risks. Perhaps his greatest shortcoming was his unwillingness to delegate.
Path to peace
In June 1944, Gustaf Mannerheim, to ensure Third Reich support while a major Soviet offensive was threatening Finland, thought it necessary to agree to the pact the Third Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop demanded. But even then Mannerheim managed to distance himself from the pact and it fell to President Risto Ryti to sign it, so that came to be known as the Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement. This allowed Mannerheim to revoke the agreement with the resignation of President Ryti at the start of August 1944. Mannerheim succeeded him as president.
It became clear that Mannerheim was the only person who had sufficient prestige, both internationally and domestically, to extricate Finland from the war. He enjoyed the confidence of a majority of the Finnish people, and was effectively the only one with the authority necessary to guide Finland in the transition from war to peace.
He was afraid throughout most of his presidency that the commission would request that he be prosecuted for crimes against peace. This never happened. One of the reasons for this was Stalin's respect for and admiration of the Marshal. Stalin told a Finnish delegation in Moscow in 1947 that the Finns owe much to their old Marshal. Due to him Finland was not occupied.
After his resignation, Mannerheim bought Kirkniemi Manor in Lohja, intending to spend his retirement there.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim died on 27 January 1951 in the Cantonal Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was buried on 4 February 1951 in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki in a state funeral with full military honours, and today retains respect as Finland's greatest statesman. his claim to always serve the fatherland without selfish motives, his personal courage in visiting the frontlines, his ability to work diligently into his late seventies, and his foreign political farsightedness in preparing for the Soviet invasion of Finland years before it occurred.

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Mannerheim movie review
My review about Gilbert Lukalia's ”Suomen Marsalkka”. ( Don't worry I don't start to rant or anything.) I'm here to tell you my view of that movie.
In my view.... Suomen Marsalkka was more a parody movie of Mannerheim. Why I say so? Because of this:
You dress like Mannerheim. You mimic Mannerheim. You are called as Mannerheim. But you aren't Mannerheim.
Why you may ask?
Because everyone can dress like Mannerheim and act like Mannerheim without being taked too seriously. :) It is like silly a Youtube video, which everyone could do.

Everyone may knows Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (German: Der Untergang) movie yes? ( Which is now popular a parody object on Youtube. )
Base of the final ten days of Adolf Hitler. Bruno Ganz as Hitler was doing awesome job. ( may the best Hitler I ever saw. )
When he was in the scenes, you could almost believe that character was real Hitler. You could feel sorry for all the Berliners , when they suffer. It was horrible to witness all that terror in film. Which that why it was good movie. It was based of in reality and not tried make fun of those, who died.

Suomen Marsalkka has nothing do with Finland's Gustaf Mannerheim. Not because a actors. Also setting locality. This happen in Africa. Far far away from Finland's forests and lakes and winter. Which that's why I call this movie a parody. There is nothing to do with reality. It was made with small budget ( 20 000 € )
Erkko Lyytinen said that Mannerheim was too myth character to film with Finland's environment. Which Finland's myth needed upgrade and new assessment. Which that I would call 'total bullshit' right there. :'D

For sample: Roland Emmerich's Godzilla film (1998). A monster suppose be Godzilla. But what we get wasn't Godzilla, but a horizontally standing bipedal iguana, who carry Godzilla name. Director Ryuhei Kitamura later renamed the creature as ”Zilla”.
In Final Wars, Zilla lose for Godzilla in 13 seconds, giving Zilla the record of the shortest battle in Final Wars, and one of the shortest defeats in any Godzilla film.
Wow, how embarrassing. :'D

So yeah, this was my review of about Mannerheim Movie. I'm still waiting for 'real' Mannerheim movie, who cut the bullshit and show us the real Gustaf Mannerheim. :) I wanna see him commanding troops in Russian Empire. Fighting The finnish Civil war, commanding during Winter War and Continuation War, see him during his free-time and with family. He was after all the father of the modern independent state of Finland. :)

Droll out!