A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.
Acting
Ita Ever's restrained devastation says everything words cannot.
Cinematography
Grey Estonian coast becomes a character of isolation.
Writing
Personal mission and political mission bleed into each other.
Director
Gennadiy Ivanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a seven-film Soviet-Estonian co-production series dramatizing real KGB border incidents, unusually sympathetic to the infiltrators' humanity.
Filmed on actual Estonian locations where 1950s operations occurred; local extras included descendants of those who fled west by boat.
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