In the Crosswind explained

In the Crosswind
Director:	Martti Helde
Starring:	Einar Hillep
Music:	Pärt Uusberg
Runtime:	87 minutes
Country:	Estonia
Language:	Estonian
Gross:	$ 20 705^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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

See also

• The Chronicles of Melanie, a similar 2016 Latvian film
• Population transfer in the Soviet Union

External links

• • Risttuules at Estonian Film Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: In the Crosswind (2014). Box Office Mojo.
2. Web site: TIFF Adds 'Clouds of Sils Maria' and 'Two Days, One Night,' Reveals 5 More Lineups . 28 August 2014 . Indiewire.
3. Web site: 'In the Crosswind': Film Review . The Hollywood Reporter . 1 May 2021.