In the Crosswind

In the Crosswind (Estonian: Risttuules) is a 2014 Estonian drama film directed by Martti Helde. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.^[2] The film is about the forced deportation by Stalin's Soviet Union of an Estonian family to Siberia in the June deportation. It is based on a real-life diary from the period and uses a long sequence of "living tableaus" for the main narrative to invoke the frozen nature of traumatizing events in an individual memory.^[3]

In the Crosswind
Film poster
Directed by	Martti Helde
Written by	Martti Helde Liis Nimik
Starring	Einar Hillep
Music by	Pärt Uusberg
Release date	28 March 2014 (2014-03-28)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Estonia
Language	Estonian
Box office	$ 20 705[1]

Cast

• Einar Hillep as Chairman of the Kolkhoz
• Ingrid Isotamm as Hermiine
• Laura Peterson as Erna Tamm
• Mirt Preegel as Eliide
• Tarmo Song as Heldur

See also

• The Chronicles of Melanie, a similar 2016 Latvian film
• Population transfer in the Soviet Union