“Singing revolution” got standing ovations
Yesterday the documentary from Jim and Maureen Tusty was presented first time in Canada, Toronto on Estdoc Festival. The audience received the movie with standing ovations. This is actually not a suprise. Tusty’s documentary describes very well the fate of Estonia between nazi ja communist dictatorships, the fight against the tyranny and victory, achieved during the “singing revolution”. This is extraordinary and true story, which is at the same time very moving. In some weeks “Singing revolution” will arrive cinemas across the United States. When You want to see this extraordinary movie in Your cinemas, please register in the homepage of the documentary. It is really worth to see it.
I want to see this movie. The only information i know about the struggle of Estonian people against occupators – German and Soviet, i know from Internet. But it’s just written words about “Forest Brothers” and guerilla movement more than 20 years after 1945. I want to see it on the screen. Can i find this movie somewhere on the internet? Torrent or something ?
I ready suggest to first look on the homepage of singing revolution movie, there is a trailer available. The movie will start in US on 7.12.2007 from Los Angeles and week later from NY. There is a interview with one of Estonian forest brothers in the movie – A.Käärmann.
And on Forest Brothers, I suggest to read my book on forest brothers “War in the woods” available also in Amazon.
I strongly suggest you read Laar’s book, “War in the Woods”. And I’m not saying that because this is Laar’s site.
I had trouble finding it in English, but a friend of mine had a copy, and I’m two-thirds of the way through it.
It’s one of the more riveting history books I’ve read this year, and I read a lot of them. Every couple pages, there is a story that I go — “holy cr-p”. The visceral nature of the suffering of the Estonian people from 1940 onwards is really brought out. It’s not the dry work of an academician.
I live in Oklahoma in the United States. The film was just recently here and my wife and I went to see it. It was excellent! It answered a lot of questions for me about my father’s family and what they endured. It also inspired me to learn more.
My father, his mother and sister left Tallinn and Estonia when my father was very young (about 6 years old, in 1940), spent years in Germany in a displaced persons camp, and finally arrived in Boston in the United States in 1950. My grandfather stayed. I know little of him (Karl Rabakukk) but I intend to learn more. I know at one point he was lined up with other men who were all in German uniforms to be shot by Russians when someone called him out that he was Estonian and not German. He was then sent to Siberia for 15 years. I never had the chance to meet him as he died soon after I was born in 1966. I have been to Estonia though. My parents and I visited Estonia in 1995 and met many of our relatives and had a wonderful time.
My wife is a writer and intends to write an article or two about Estonia and is thinking about even more. We both, as well as our two daughters and my father, are hoping to attend the festival next year in Tallinn.
We also have recently purchased two copies of your book The War in the Woods (one for us and one for my father who lives in Arlington, Texas – near Dallas) and I am looking forward to reading it.
I just recently discovered your blog and I look forward to reading. Thanks!
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