In the Crosswind (2014)

Original title

Risttuules

Directed by

Martti Helde

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Estonia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family is forcibly deported from Estonia to Siberia during Stalin's regime. The story is based on a real diary and uses still, tableau-like scenes to show how traumatic memories stay frozen in time.

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What happens

In the Crosswind (Estonian: Risttuules) is a 2014 Estonian drama film directed by Martti Helde. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is about the forced deportation by Stalin's Soviet Union of an Estonian family to Siberia in the June deportation. It is based on a real-life diary from the period and uses a long sequence of "living tableaus" for the main narrative to invoke the frozen nature of traumatizing events in an individual memory. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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