1944

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1944

2015,

1h 40m,

Drama/

War

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4 Reviews

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74%

50+ Ratings

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4 Reviews

74%

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50+ Ratings

Events from the war in 1944 seen through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides.

Chris Ball

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Aug 18, 2017

The film seamlessly shifts perspectives between the two sides but never hits you over the head with its message.

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Mark R. Leeper

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Aug 7, 2017

7/10

Perhaps this film is just one cut below the current DUNKIRK. This is a chapter of history that deserves to be better known.

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Jul 28, 2017

B

The frantic battle scenes have a believable feel and depict, without pulling a punch, all the horrors of war and its impact on the men who fight it.

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Jul 27, 2017

B-

Instead of becoming immersed in war, I kept seeing storyboards brought to life. Yet as the film progresses, the human toll of brother fighting against brother overcomes this deficiency, involving us more in this little known tragedy of World War II.

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Kylo W

Jan 4, 2019

Starts off more like a WW1 movie and a little bit boring the action while serviceable is one step away from the amount of gore really needed. One problem I also had is that a lot of the actors kind of look the same, so when they start dropping like flies it's hard to remember who was who. What the movie does pull off well is a twist halfway through where the main character is killed off and a POV shift occurs to the other side of the same battle where we finish the second half of the movie with. So the movie does do a decent job illustrating how Estonians got screwed over by both sides. So entertaining and solemn enough for a watch.

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Hermione S

Oct 19, 2018

This Film is an Documentary/Drama of ESTONIA historical events from 1944 on which you can see a WW2 scenario but on reality is story of friends fighting both sides to avoid been kill by the other.

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Albus W

Mar 3, 2017

It was one of those few movies that shows the perspectives of the not only the both sides but soldiers and civilians that are trapped in the war that is not theirs...

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Elmo Nüganen

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Synopsis

Events from the war in 1944 seen through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides.

Director: Elmo Nüganen
Producer: Ilkka Matila, Kristian Taska
Screenwriter: Leo Kunnas
Production Co: Matila Röhr Productions (MRP), Taska Film
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: Estonian
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 40m

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