| In the Crosswind | |
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| Directed by | Martti Helde |
| Written by | Martti Helde Liis Nimik |
| Starring | Einar Hillep |
| Music by | Pärt Uusberg |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Estonia |
| Language | Estonian |
| Box office | $ 20 705[1] |
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]
