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THE FENCER

MIEKKAILIJA

By Klaus HӒRӦ

Drama - Completed 2015

The Fencer is a touching drama about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him.

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2015

Tridens Estonian Film Award

Munich International Film Festival 2015

Bernard Wicki award

Cambridge Film Festival 2015

Beirut International Film Festival 2015

Kyoto Historica International Film Festival 2015

Cairo International Film Festival 2015

International Film Festival by the Sea 2015

Una Finestra Sul Nord 2015

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- FINLAND, ESTONIA, GERMANY
- Languages
- RUSSIAN, ESTONIAN
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Klaus HӒRӦ
- Writer(s)
- Anna HEINÄMAA
- Cast
- Mart AVANDI, Ursula RATASEPP, Hendrik TOOMPERE, Lembit ULFSAK, Liisa KOPPEL
- Producer(s)
- Kai NORDBERG (MAKING MOVIES OY), Kaarle AHO (MAKING MOVIES OY)
- Synopsis
- A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having left Leningrad to escape the secret police, he finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students. Endel becomes a father figure to his students and starts teaching them his great passion – fencing, which causes a conflict with the school’s principal. Envious, the principal starts investigating Endel’s background…
  
  Endel learns to love the children and looks after them; most are orphans as a result of the Russian occupation. Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for the children and Endel becomes a role model. The children want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad, and Endel must make a choice: risk everything to take the children to Leningrad or put his safety first and disappoint them.