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In 1958, during the Cold War, the filmmakers' orphaned mother became the first child that was allowed to leave Communist Soviet-Estonia to re-unite with her newly found parents in the West.

"The Daughter behind the Iron Curtain" is a Swedish documentary film by two brothers who tell the story of how their Estonian mother in 1958 as a teenager came to Sweden from the closed Soviet Union. During blazing world war, she had been separated from her parents, but was reunited with them many years later under unlikely circumstances. It is a remarkable story about the first child allowed to leave Soviet-Estonia to reunite with her parents in the West. But also a story about the volatility of fate in a dangerous and uncertain world divided into East and West, a subject that has gained renewed relevance as Europe is once again shaken by a brutal war of aggression.—Erik Forslund