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1997. ( 1997) Running time. 41 minutes. Country. Estonia. Language. Estonian. We Lived for Estonia [1] ( Estonian: Elasime Eestile) is a documentary film about the Forest brothers during World War II .
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West: Laurence Rees, Andrew Williams: 2009 France Apocalypse: The Second World War: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle: 2009 United States The Inheritance of War: Ashley Karras: 2009 Netherlands Patton 360° Tony Long: 2009 Finland Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland: Imbi Paju: 2009 ...
World War II losses in Estonia, estimated at around 25% of the population, were among the highest proportion in Europe. War and occupation deaths listed in the current reports total at 81,000. These include deaths in Soviet deportations in 1941, Soviet executions, German deportations, and victims of the Holocaust in Estonia.
Propaganda documentary about the Estonian Defence League. Täiskäik edasi: Full Speed Ahead: Erik Boltowski: review: Erik Boltowski EDF: Propaganda documentary about the Estonian Navy development. Mehed unustatud armeest: The Forgotten Soldiers: Kalle Käesel: documentary: Osakond: A documentary about a top secret Estonian Guard Company nr.4421.
t. e. In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then-warring German and Russian Empires. However, in the wake of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Soviet Union had invaded and occupied Estonia in June 1940 ...
1944. (film) 1944 is a 2015 Estonian war drama film directed by Elmo Nüganen. The film first premiered in February 2015 in Berlin, Germany, before its release in Estonia [4] and other Northern European countries. It was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
During the first decades of Soviet rule as Estonia became a part of USSR in 1944 after the end of World War II, filmmakers in Estonia were mostly coming from inner Soviet Union whose job was to create propaganda films that depicted the victory of socialism in a form of newsreels and documentaries like the newsreel "Soviet Estonia" (1950 ...
The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Known alternatively as the "Forest Brothers", the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars" (Estonian: metsavennad, Latvian: mežabrāļi, Lithuanian: žaliukai), these partisans fought against invading Soviet forces during their ...