The fencer
(2018, original release: 2015)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/ESTONIAN/FENCER

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/ESTONIAN/FENCER Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Chicago, Illinois] : Music Box Films, 2018
©2015
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9786317172302 12004685, 6317172307 :, 751778951123
LANGUAGE
Estonian
NOTES

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015

"Fleeing from the Soviet secret police, Estonian fencer Endel Nelis returns to his homeland and finds work as a children's sports instructor. Quickly becoming a role model to his students, Nelis begins teaching them competitive fencing techniques despite the objections of school administrators. When the children are invited to a fencing tournament in Leningrad, Nelis must make a choice: put his safety first or risk everything to take the children to the competition"--Container

Wide screen (1.85:1)

Bonus features: interview with director Klaus Härö; select scene director video commentaries; theatrical trailer

Cinematographer, Tuomo Hutri ; composer, Gert Wilden, Jr. ; editors, Tambet Tasuja, Ueli Christen

Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere, Sr

DVD; 5.1 Dolby digital

In Estonian and Russian with optional English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

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