1944 movie plot

1944

Forced to Fight is a 1944 film directed by Elmo Newcannon and starring Kasper Wilberg, Christian Uxcula, Mikan Schmidt, Gert Lausey, etc.The German and Soviet Leningrad Fronts fought a series of battles for the Isthmus of Narva. In July, Soviet troops captured Narva, an ancient city that has been the dividing line between Russia and the Western world for nine hundred years. The Tannenberg Line behind Narva is the last line of defense in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. A group of Estonian youths in their early 20s volunteered to join the 20th Division of the Waffen SS and began to attack the Soviet armored units on the Eastern Front. Soviet occupation. This is not the first time Estonia has been reduced to a battleground between East and West, Germans and Slavs. Counting from the ice battle on Lake Chude, this battle has lasted for more than 700 years, and the Estonians caught in the middle are inevitably surrounded by both sides and become victims of history.In September, as Finland announced the cessation of military cooperation with Germany and signed the Moscow Armistice Agreement, the German army, which was besieged by the enemy, decided to withdraw from Estonia. The Soviet army followed the German army all the way to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The Yestonian (Russianized Estonian) soldiers in the Red Army also witnessed it with their own eyes. The blue, black and white tricolor flag symbolizing Estonian national independence, On September 18, the symbol of the city of Tallinn, the Herman Tower, was hoisted for four days, and it was finally replaced by the Soviet red flag on September 22.The occupation of Tallinn was not the last battle between the Soviet Union and Germany in Estonia. In November, in the muddy, dense forest on the island of Saaremaa, Esthanian soldiers expelled the last German troops from Estonia under fire from German ships. The large-scale war has finally ended, but peace and freedom have not yet come to this small country, and the pain caused by the war is still difficult to heal. This is 1944 for the Estonians.