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
    • 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.