Dawn

(2015)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2015

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: Estonia, Latvia

Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Cast: Antons Georgs Grauds, Vilis Daudziņš, Wiktor Zborowski, Āris Rozentāls, Андрис Кейшс, Liena Šmukste, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Рудольф Плепис, Ivars Brakovskis, Beatrise Gulbe

Plot

Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a 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, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a Pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son. Who then in this old Soviet tale is good and who is bad? This film reveals that a distorted brain is always dangerous. Even today.