#NÖFF FILM 2 “Lahkumine Tallinnast 1941” (Leaving Tallinn1941)

Reedel, 30. oktoobril algab Stockholmi Eesti Majas Novembriööde filmifestival NÖFF. Neljal reedeõhtul pakutakse vaatamiseks uusi ja vanu eesti filme.

Reede õhtul on teiseks filmiks dokumentaalfilm “Lahkumine Tallinnast 1941” (2025)
Režissöörid Jaak Kilmi, Kiur Aarma
Filmil on inglise k subtiitrid
Film kestab 75 min

Ajalooline dokumentaalpõnevik läbi aegade suurimast merekatastroofist Läänemerel. 27. augustil 1941 algab punavägede evakueerimine Tallinnale pealetungivate sakslaste eest. Punaarmee üksuste jäänused, põgenevad punategelased, mobiliseeritud ja evakueeritavad, kokku üle 30 000 inimese, paigutatakse enam kui 200 laevale. Järgneval kahel päeval sõidab miinile või saab pommitabamuse 60 laeva, hukkub hinnanguliselt 15 000 inimest. Teist sellist merelahingut, kus oleks hukkunud nii palju inimesi, suurem osa neist tsiviilisikud, annab ajaloost otsida. Film Juminda merekatastroofist on ennekõike inimeste lugu. Läbi kogu draama jutustavad lugu selles osalenute hääled, mis isekeskis põimuvad. Need on hääled kõikvõimalikest sündmuspunktidest: laevade mootoriruumidest, hävituslennukilt, piirivalvekaatrilt, päästepaadist, kambüüsist, hulpimas mustade lainete vahelt. Osalised räägivad vähemalt neljas keeles, milles inimesed neil traagilistel öödel Soome lahel kõnelesid, karjusid, käskisid, palvetasid, kartsid, raporteerisid või appi hüüdsid – eesti, vene, saksa, soome. Olgugi et tegu on hukkunute arvult koletu sündmusega lausa maailmaajalooliselt, rääkimata selle tähendusest Eesti ajaloole, on see tragöödia oma peaaegu hoomamatus mastaabis olnud nii eestlastele kui muule maailmale vähe teada. Uurime oma filmis, kuidas seda kohutavat katastroofi hilisemates ajaloonarratiivides kirjeldatud, maha vaikitud, väiksemaks kõneldud, muuks räägitud ja heroiseeritud on.
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On Friday, 30 October, the November Nights Film Festival (NÖFF) kicks off at the Estonian House in Stockholm. Over four Friday evenings, audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy a selection of new and classic Estonian films.

The second film on Friday is a documentary, “Leaving Tallinn. 1941” (2025)
Directors: Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma
The film has subtitles in English
Duration: 75 min

The battle of the mines at Juminda was one of the deadliest naval battles in history. Over 50 ships and some 15,000 lives were lost in the Gulf of Finland within a few hours in August 1941. In the face of the advancing German forces, the Red Army began evacuating Tallinn on 27 August 1941 in the direction of Kronstadt in Russia. More than 30,000 people, including survivors of the Red Army units defending Tallinn, fleeing communists, enlisted soldiers, and civilian evacuees, were packed on to more than 200 ships. Over the subsequent hours and days, 60 of those ships either hit mines that the Finns and Germans had laid along the Northern Estonian coast, were torpedoed or were bombed from the air. An estimated 15,000 evacuees died. The film of this disaster is above all a story of people, where the sunken ships that where carrying them provide the setting for the drama. All the parts of the story, from the evening before the evacuation to the lives that were saved during it, are told by voices that were there. These voices are from different sides of the events, from the engine rooms of the ships, the bombers flying above them, the border guard posts, the lifeboats, a galley, a ship’s cabin, or caught between the black waves of the Gulf of Finland. This may have been the most terrible loss of life under such circumstances in history, but the tragedy and its enormous scale are barely known by the peoples of the Baltic Sea or the wider world. Remembrance brought no glory to the Soviet Union, nor to those countries that ultimately lost the war and so preferred not to speak of the tragedy they had inflicted on their victors.
Read more about the film HERE

Admission: 100 SEK. Tickets available at the door.
The film club’s café and bar will be open.