World War II [WWII] - Baltics [Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania]
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"Punane udu" ["The Red Fog"], 1942, Estonia
"Nemad" ["Them"], 201X, Estonia
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Missing:
"Punane udu" ["The Red Fog"], 1942, Estonia
"Nemad" ["Them"], 201X, Estonia
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- DirectorJonas VaitkusStarsSaulius BalandisBrigita BublytePovilas StankusJonas Vaitkus's patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuania's ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, the legendary partisan who sought to bring Lithuania's plight to the West. Set in 1950, Utterly Alone powerfully depicts the bloody and brutal treatment meted out by Soviet Russia, aided by Lithuanian collaborators, as it systematically hunts down and kills resistance fighters. Reminiscent of the mood of Schindler's List, it pays tribute to the courage and fortitude of Daumantas and his fellow fighters as they battle valiantly against the might of Stalin's empire. Shot in atmospheric black-and-white, Utterly Alone has a documentary feel that only serves to bolster its starkness and the hopelessness of the partisans' cause. Utterly Alone is preceded by a short explanatory documentary.
- DirectorArvids KrievsStarsKristine NevarauskaMartins FreimanisJanis VingrisHistorical drama about a love triangle on the background of the Second World War.
- DirectorMarek PiestrakStarsHanna DunowskaTomasz StockingerVasiliy LanovoyTallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan's rule over the world.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsValentinas MasalskisSteven BerkoffLiubomiras LauceviciusA man who was imprisoned by the Nazis later writes of his experience, then he is imprisoned by the Soviets, just as oppressive as the Germans.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsHeino FerchSebastian HülkErika MarozsánIn 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsRomualds AncansMartins DancausksSigne DundureA story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.
- DirectorJüri MüürStarsRudolf AllabertHeino RaudsikLeonhard MerzinThe story of the war film is about paths of the Estonian Shooting Corps (formed by the Red Army) during the WW-2 and how the fight forms an usual man to a loyal soldier. Ideologic aspects of the movie are more hidden than in ordinary Soviet war films but they're still existing.
- DirectorRolands KalninsStarsAntra LiedskalninaHarijs LiepinsEduards PavulsThree friends (Janis, Zigis and Ricards) serve for the Latvian Legion during the Second World War. Zigis dies trying to join the Soviet side later in the war. Twenty years later Janis and Ricards meet.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsVladimir SvirskiyVladislav AbashinSergey KolesovWestern frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisDonatas BanionisJuozas BudraitisThis film only evokes one day, the last day of a Lithuanian village of which all the inhabitants have been massacred, shot and burnt by Nazi executioners Saturday, June 3td. 1944. But the action unfolds in the past and in the present because man's memory does not forget and does not pardon genocide.
- DirectorPeeter UrblaStarsMadis KalmetRita RätseppViktor Proskurin"Voora nime all", which translates roughly as "under a foreign name", explores the situation during the Second World War when fellow countrymen were forced to fight against each other and their native country, as some were forced into the Soviet army and others into the opposing German army. Hendrik Paralepa is an Estonian, and a soldier in the Soviet army. He is sent undercover to the German-occupied city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, in order to prepare for its imminent occupation by the Soviet forces. To undermine the German forces, Hendrik assumes the identity of a SS soldier named Mart Kuusik - a fellow Estonian and a former classmate of Hendrik's, who was killed in combat. Hendrik's high school sweetheart, a girl named Heli Mets, the daughter of the city registrar, is also in Tallinn and she's working hard to keep the national archives safe in an attempt to preserve the history of her country, which is caught between two warring nations. The film deals with the conflicts that go on between people and their consciences during wartime.
- DirectorVeljo KäsperStarsRené UrmetSven-Erik NielsenViktor PerebeinosThe capital of Estonia is occupied by the Germans. Three local boys plan to blow up the cinema where German soldiers often spend time. However, their plans change when they accidentally meet a mysterious stranger. A complicated and dangerous game begins where the rules are not set by the schoolkids.
- DirectorMarko MäkilaaksoStarsAndrew TiernanJouko AholaSamuli VauramoA platoon of American and Finnish soldiers is driven deep into a Russian forest where its Captain discovers a terrifying secret.Set in Finland, but filmed in the Baltics [Vilnius]...
- DirectorOlav NeulandStarsRudolf AllabertNelli TaarArvo IhoA speechless stranger comes to a poor family tearing by partisan's and government's interests.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.Takes place on the eve of WWII, but may, or may not, actually be considered a WWII related film...very highly recommended!
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsKaspar VelbergKristjan ÜkskülaMaiken PiusIn 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.