It is with such hard choices facing the main characters of the film - the soldiers of the opposing sides Carl Tammik and Urey Jogi - as well as their comrades, relatives, friends and even strangers.

Written by Ahmed Tanvir. Solid anti-war film told from the perspective of the Estonians who fought for the Germans and the Russians, blends the violence of battles with the emotional conflicts when your country is a pawn between two much more powerful neighbors.

This film stands with some of the better war films ever produced but has it's own voice. I liked how the film switched sides half way through and told how, in these circumstances, the only "winners" are the survivors.

Outside of the Soviet political officer who seem to be an Estonia communist rather that a Russian and the mention that the Russians, after they invaded, sent large quality of Estonians to the gulags a true fact , this seems to be the only negative reference to the Russians.

And is it propaganda when the the actual plan of the Soviets was to conquer and turn Estonia into a Russian client state?. Are the reviewers actual trying to convince us that somehow the Stalinites were better than the Hitlerites?

Or the somehow the Russians weren't equally as bad as the Germans? Estonians, at the time, forced into service against their will and having to choice between to bad two options did what they had to do to survive.

And if they had to choose, would have with the attitude that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. All Titles TV Episodes Celebs Companies Keywords Advanced Search.

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Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. The Soviet forces are superior in numbers of tanks and infantry and the German forces have to retreat through streams of civilian refugees.

After a ferocious battle, the victors are a Red Army Estonian unit. As they bury the dead of both sides in a mass grave, an Estonian in the Red Army called Jüri searches the body of an Estonian in the German forces called Karl and finds an unposted letter to Karl's sister Aino in Tallinn.

When the Russians capture the city, he delivers the letter in person and he and Aino become friendly, which incurs the enmity of his unit's political officer.

Back fighting on the Sõrve Peninsula in November, his unit captures a group of sixteen-year-old Estonian boys in German uniform.

The political officer orders Jüri to kill them all and, when he questions the decision, shoots Jüri dead. The officer himself is executed by one of Jüri's comrades seconds later.

On Jüris body, a comrade finds an unposted letter to Aino which he, when he has a spell of leave, delivers in person.

The first part of filming took place in October till the Easter break of It then continued at the start of the summer of where filming also took place at the Sinimäed Hills.

The film was funded by the Estonian Film Institute, the Estonian Ministry of Defence , the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and private investments.

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