In the Crosswind
In the Crosswind 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.
Cast
- Einar Hillep as Chairman of the Kolkhoz
- Ingrid Isotamm as Hermiine
- Laura Peterson as Erna Tamm
- Mirt Preegel as Eliide
- Tarmo Song as Heldur