After a ferocious battle, the victors are a Red Army Estonian unit.Īs 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. The Soviet forces are superior in numbers of tanks and infantry and the German forces have to retreat through streams of civilian refugees. A visit by a Nazi official, who hands out signed photographs of Hitler, attracts ridicule. The film opens in July 1944 on the Tannenberg Line in Estonia, where a unit of Estonian soldiers in the Waffen SS are fighting the advancing Red Army. Neither side offers the Estonians autonomy from foreign control. Whichever side wins will regard the Estonians on the opposing side as traitors, liable to execution or deportation.
Others have volunteered or been conscripted into the Soviet forces, again with little commitment to the Communist regime. Some have volunteered or been conscripted into the German forces, most with little commitment to the Nazi regime. Īs the Soviet Union advances to recapture Estonia from its German occupiers, with huge losses on both sides, the film explores the mental conflicts of young Estonians. It was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. The film first premiered in February 2015 in Berlin, Germany, before its release in Estonia and other Northern European countries. 1944 is a 2015 Estonian war drama film directed by Elmo Nüganen.
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