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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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