1944

This film (drama)Also known as1944，is aEstonia, FinlandProducerwomen sex，At2015Released in year 。The dialogue language isEstonian, Russian, German，Current Douban rating8.2(For reference only)。

In 1944, the German army engaged in a series of battles with the Soviet Leningrad Front for control of the Narva Strait. In July, the Soviet army captured Narva, a historic city that had been the boundary between Russia and the Western world for nine hundred years. Behind Narva, the Tannenbaum Line was the last defense of Estonia's capital, Tallinn. A group of Estonian young men in their twenties volunteered to join the Waffen-SS 20th Division, beginning to strike back against Soviet armored units on the Eastern Front in resistance to the Soviet occupation. This was not the first time Estonia had become a battleground between East and West, between Germans and Slavs. Since the great battle on the ice of Lake Chud, this conflict had lasted over seven hundred years, and the Estonians caught in the middle inevitably became victims of history. By September, after Finland announced the cessation of military cooperation with Germany and signed the Moscow Armistice, the besieged German forces decided to withdraw from Estonia. The Soviet army followed the Germans all the way to Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, where Estonian (Russian-ized Estonians) soldiers in the Red Army witnessed with their own eyes the blue, black, and white tricolor flag, symbolizing Estonian national independence. On September 18, it was hung at the symbolic Hermann Tower in Tallinn for four days before being replaced by the Soviet flag on September 22. The capture of Tallinn was not the final battle between the Germans and Soviets in Estonia. In November, amidst the muddy, dense forests of Saaremaa Island, Estonian soldiers, under artillery fire from German vessels, drove out the last batch of German troops. The large-scale hostilities finally came to an end, but peace and freedom had not yet arrived in this small territory, and the pain brought by the war remained difficult to heal... This was the year 1944 for the Estonians.