Leaving Tallinn. 1941 - Production & Contact Info

Leaving Tallinn. 1941 (2025)
75 min | Documentary

Leaving Tallinn. 1941 (2025)

75 min | Documentary

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 ...See moreThe 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. Written by EFIS See less

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