Drama / Family
Estonia,
2018, 100 min
Directed by:
Moonika SiimetsScreenplay:
Moonika SiimetsCinematography:
Rein KotovCast:
Yuliya Aug, Tambet Tuisk, Maria Avdjushko, Eva Klemets, Maria Klenskaja, Lembit Peterson, Hilje Murel, Carmen Mikiver, Sandra Uusberg, Pille Pürg (more)VOD (1)
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One day, six-year-old Leelo’s school teacher mother is taken away by soldiers and the little girl has to find answers to a lot of questions on her own: why is the blue-black-white flag forbidden, what’s a traitor, why is a scary NKVD detective snooping around in their home and is being a Soviet Pioneer a thing of honour or shame? Through frequently tragicomic situations, Leelo tries to be as good a girl as she can in the two-faced, Stalinist world around her so that her mother will one day come back home. (Estonian Film Institute)
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