In the Crosswind

In the Crosswind (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. 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.

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