Tšekaa Komissar Miroštšenko

(Estonia)

A somber melodrama set during the era of the Treaty of Tartu, a time when people were pawns in a game of force and power. The film is admirably courageous, as its makers dare to confront difficult issues without embellishment and show that nighttime arrests, brutal interrogations, and arbitrary execution orders were not solely the handiwork of Josef Stalin’s reign of terror, but that their traditions ran far deeper, back into the Bolshevik era. In the final climax, the film pays homage to the master of such works, D. W. Griffith.

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