Ausma

The film is based on Soviet propaganda story (most likely not too accurate) about Young Pioneer Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the only moral duty of all good Soviet citizens: the good of the state is of the utmost importance. In the film 78 years later we call him little Janis. He is a pioneer, who lives in the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is the enemy of the collective farm (and the Soviet system). Little Janis betrays his father. The father is taking revenge on his son. Who, in this old Soviet fairy-tale, is good and who is evil? Unfortunately, the totalitarian regime and dictatorship intending to transform people into dull screws of the unthinkable mechanism is eternal subject disregarding the limits of time and space. (Estonian Film Institute)