A hopeless battle for freedom. Few survived. This is their story.
The Second World War is over.
However, the partisans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, soon
forgotten by the world, were still fighting a hopeless battle for
their freedom. They attacked the Soviet occupying forces from out
of the forests. That is why people called them the "Forest
Brothers". Very few of those forest fighters who survived the long
years in prison camps afterwards are themselves able to tell their
story today. This film follows four of them. It relates the course
of their lives, a story which we in the West have misunderstood,
misconstrued, distrusted, and even ignored.
Historical Background
Forest Brothers is a documentary film that recounts an important little-known period after the end of World War Two, when up to 50,000 residents of the Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, used their natural forest environment as a refuge and base for staging armed resistance against the occupying Soviet power. That is why people called them "The Forest Brothers". Their actions lasted till the late 1950s/early 1960s. Over a period of more than a decade, most of them perished in this heroic struggle against the occupying Soviet powers. After 1945, the partisans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, soon forgotten by the world, were fighting a hopeless battle for their freedom. Very few of those forest fighters who survived the long years in prison camps afterwards are themselves able to tell their story today. This film follows four of them and their stories. It relates the course of their lives, a story which we in the West have at times misunderstood, misconstrued, distrusted and even ignored. It is even worse when such partisans are sometimes labelled as "SS veterans". The four men who appear in the film were too young for that. When they joined the resistance movement the Second World War was long past and their sole aim was to regain freedom for their country and their people. More ...
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