DAWN OF WAR

20.03.2024

Estonia, 2021, 99’

Details
  • Director: Margus Paju
  • Screenplay: Tiit Aleksejev, Tom Abrams, Eriikka Etholén Paju, Olle Mirme
  • Cinematography: Meelis Veeremets ESC
  • Editing: Marion Koppel
  • MusicRichards Zalupe, Eriks Esenvald
  • Production: Nafta Films, Taska Film
  • Cast: Priit Võigemast, Kaspars Znotinš, Agnese Cīrule, Doris Tislar, Rein Oja, Elmo Nüganen, Johan Kristjan Aimla, Sampo Sarkola, Ieva Andrejevaitè, Valentin Novopolskij

   

Recap

August 1939, the final days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment, the head of Estonia's counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. Suspecting a traitor in their midst, the unit is shut down, and intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is tasked with catching the culprit. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia.

Director

Margus Paju

Born in 1983, Marcus Paju graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School in 2006. Since then, He has written and directed several internationally awarded short films, documentaries, commercials, and TV series. His first full-length feature film, The Secret Society of Souptown (2015), became the highest-grossing Estonian family film at that time, winning various awards.

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