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Valgus Koordis (1951)

Valgus Koordis poster
Directed by
Herbert Rappaport
Genre
drama film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a small Estonian village, a collective farm faces challenges and conflicts as it tries to modernize and improve production. The story follows the lives of the farmers and their struggles to adapt to new ways of working.

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What happens

Valgus Koordis (Light in Koordi) is a 1951 Estonian drama film directed by Herbert Rappaport and based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Hans Leberecht. Awards, nominations, participations: 1952: Stalin Prize (USSR), recipients: Herbert Rappaport, Georg Ots, Aleksander Randviir, Valentine Tern, Elmar Kivilo, Evi Rauer, Hugo Laur, Sergei Ivanov (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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