THE LITTLE COMRADE

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THE LITTLE COMRADE

SELTSIMEES LAPS

By Moonika SIIMETS

ESTONIAN FILM INSTITUTE - as FIN / PROMO

Drama - Completed 2018

In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo’s mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother’s last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ESTONIA
- Languages
- ESTONIAN
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Moonika SIIMETS
- Writer(s)
- Moonika SIIMETS
- Cast
- Tambet TUISK, Helena Maria REISNER, Yulia AUG, Eva KOLDITS, Liina VAHTRIK, Juhan ULFSAK, Lembit PETERSON, Maria KLENSKAJA
- Producer(s)
- Riina SILDOS (AMRION OÜ)
- Synopsis
- One day, six-year-old Leelo’s school teacher mother is taken away by soldiers and the little girl has to find answers to a lot of questions on her own: why is the blue-black-white flag forbidden, what’s a traitor, why is a scary NKVD detective snooping around in their home and is being a Soviet Pioneer a thing of honor or shame? Through frequently tragicomic situations, Leelo tries to be as good a girl as she can in the two-faced, Stalinist world around her so that her mother will one day come back home.