1944

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, second to Stalingrad, the bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Estonian men, deported by Stalin in 1939, now brought out of Siberian labour camps and returning home in enemy uniforms.
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In the new historical film Elmo Nyuganena "1944" considered the military events in Estonia in 1944, during the period from July of fights Sinimäe until November, when the peninsula of Sorve was already conquered by the Soviet Army. War is shown through the eyes of participants in the events on both warring sides - the Estonians who fought on the side of the German army in the 20th Estonian division Waffen-SS, and as part of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Soviet Army. For residents of Estonia it was a war in which everyone makes their own choices. It is with such hard choices facing the main characters of the film - the soldiers of the opposing sides Carl Tammik and Urey Jogi - as well as their co-workers, relatives, friends and even unknown people. Written by Ahmed Tanvir