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Dawn (2015)

Original title (Latvian): Ausma

Title in Estonian: Koit

Feature film Duration 60:50:00

Sünopsis

This film is based on a Soviet propaganda story (most likely false) about “Young Pioneer” (Soviet equivalent to the "Boy Scout") Morozov who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, even at the expense of family ties. In the Soviet Union this story was a subject of many books, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, opera and also the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
In our film 75 years later we call him little Janis. He is a pioneer who lives in the Soviet collective farm "Dawn". His father is an enemy of collective farm (and Soviet system) and wants to burn down its headquarters. Little Janis betrays his father. The father is taking a revenge at his son. Who in this old Soviet fairy-tale is the good and who is the bad guy?

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