Estonyalı ünlü eskrimci Endel Nelis’in hayat hikayesinden filme aktarılan film, 2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Rusya’da gizli polis teşkilatından kaçmak amacıyla Leningrad’dan Estonya’ya kaçarak orada en büyük tutkusu olan eskrim sporunu çocuklara öğretmesini anlatıyor. Nelis, öğretmen olarak çalışmaya başladığı okulda bir eskrim kulübü kurar ve Rusya işgali sırasında birçoğu öksüz kalmış çocuklar için bir idol ve baba figürüne dönüşür. Film, bu yıl hem Altın Küre, hem de Oscar ödüllerinde En İyi Yabancı Film kategorisinde aday olmuştu.

Eskrimci

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos.  "Family Lies" by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

Family Lies

With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.