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Titanic Festival: The Fencer

Miekkailija
Drama, History, Sport | Finland, Estonia, Germany, 93 min, 2015
in original languages with English subtitles and Hungarian translation

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Director: Klaus Härö

Cast: Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere Sr.

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... 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.

Titanic Festival 2016 programme

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