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In the Crosswind

Original title: Risttuules
  • 20142014
  • 1h 30m
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7.5/10
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In the Crosswind (2014)
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"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families wi... Read all"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Sib... Read all"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still kee... Read all
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    • Martti Helde
    • Martti Helde
    • Liis Nimik
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    • Laura Peterson
    • Tarmo Song
    • Mirt Preegel
    • Martti Helde
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    • Tarmo Song
    • Mirt Preegel
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    • 13User reviews
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    • Erna Tamm
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    • Heldur
    Mirt Preegel
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    8/10
    Unusual film that is genuinely moving but could have been a cheap gimmick
    It's a great film, but it's most definitely not for everyone.

    It employes a highly unusual structure. It's told mostly through a series of live tableaus, various moments "frozen" in place, accompanied by a woman's letters read out in voiceover narration, as the camera weaves in and out of the scene, gliding past characters posed in freeze frame postures. At times, it feels more like performance art or a museum exhibition, and it easily could have been a cheap gimmick. But the filmmakers have performed a near miracle and instead of a cheap gimmick, they've produced something genuinely moving. It is haunting and heartbreaking. The film does demand some patience, but that patience is rewarded.

    Here's some historical context:

    In June 1940, while the Western European powers are preoccupied with the catastrophe of Dunkirk and the collapse of France, the Soviet Union swiftly and quietly occupies the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. A year later, beginning on June 14, 1941, Soviet forces carry out mass deportations of people from throughout the Baltic region to their new lives as prisoners/serfs/slaves in Siberia. This was just one part of Stalin's systematic dismantling of local/indigenous sources of power, authority, and legitimacy in every territory Moscow controlled. It is also a small part of the decades-long program of ethnic cleansing and "Russification" of Soviet-conquered and Soviet-occupied lands. The euphemism they used was "population transfers".
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      • March 28, 2014 (Estonia)
      • Estonia
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      • Kabala Train Station, Viru-Kabala, Lääne-Viru, Estonia
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      • Baltic Pine Films
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
      • Black and White

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