In the Crosswind
Mar 28, 2014 | IMDB 7.1
86 min Watch NowDrama, History
June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.
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IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 2009
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IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1987
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2008
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IMDB 4.1 | Oct , 2015
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