Baltic Storm

September. 01,2003      
Rating:
4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.

Greta Scacchi as  Julia Reuter
Jürgen Prochnow as  Erik Westermark
Donald Sutherland as  Lou Aldryn
Dieter Laser as  Gehrig
Jürgen Schornagel as  Jan Peters
Barbara Schöne as  Ingrid Peters
Rein Oja as  Captain Arvo Kallas
Herb Andress as  Juri Roos
Thure Riefenstein as  Mika Galt
Francis Fulton-Smith as  Markus Dackel

Reviews

Lovesusti
2003/09/01

The Worst Film Ever

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GamerTab
2003/09/02

That was an excellent one.

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SnoReptilePlenty
2003/09/03

Memorable, crazy movie

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AshUnow
2003/09/04

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Anna Tasagrim
2003/09/05

Benjamin Hedlund is doing his job well of course. He works on the museum where we Swedish citizens can learn about all lies concerning "Estoniagate". Benjamin and his fellows are that sort of people every dictator in every country will love, some call them useful idiots. Jutta Rabe speaks the truth in her movie. She had a low budget and was mainly concerned about the message, wherefore perhaps other qualities lack in the movie, but the truth is quality enough. If the truth will be official in Sweden there will be trouble, probably violence, but still I should prefer it, because the other option, to remain silent, means the loss of our dignity.

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Benjamin Hedlund
2003/09/06

Clossius says that "Baltic Storm" is banned in Sweden. That is not correct! Instead you can buy the film almost everywhere, like in gas stations, shopping malls, internet (of course) and so on. Often to a very low price because this movie is so BAD and nobody wants to see it, despite all the tricks to keep up the interest. The movie only appeals to conspiracy theorists, psychos and other persons living in la-la-land and those who "knows the truth". Working on a museum with the Estonia disaster as a theme I have meet them all! I have heard about every theory that exists like cocaine-smuggling, weapon-smuggling, biological warfare, nuclear smuggling, red mercury, aliens, the Russian- the American- the Estonian- the Swedish- and the Finnish intelligence, often in different combinations.Some normal persons have asked why we don't show the film? A question only asked by them who haven't seen this terrible nonsense movie. Once again, "Baltic Storm" is not banned in Sweden. It has some entertaining qualities but what a hell is Donald Sutherland doing in this movie?

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Pingo-2
2003/09/07

Controversial German journalist Jutta Rabe who herself got divers to the Estonia wreck, put this silly "thriller" together to save her investment.Donald Sutherland is of course always watchable - but he's only in three scenes. He delivers his material perfectly - as you can ask from a professional. Also, the main lead, Jürgen Prochnov, is at times very good.The rest of the cast is, however, bad. The actress that plays the Swedish minister secretary (or whatever she was - she seems not listed in the cast) is EXTREMELY bad.The script has some nice ideas, and the story is actually kind of interesting. The final screenplay should have been re-written a couple of more times though. Some scenes are plain ridiculous - especially the end scenes.The film is almost 2 hours, which is about 45 minutes too long. Presented as a 60 minutes TV-film, this could have been really interesting. As a two hour feature, it's pretentious, boring, stupid and plain out silly.Jutta Rabe might be a good journalist (her ideas about governments using Estonia to transport military items from Estonia to Sweden have been concluded as true recently, when the Swedish military officially said that they actually used the ship Estonia for this), but as a film producer she sucks.The director, the writer and the actors suck more.I give this film 3/10. I would've given it a 1, if it wasn't for the fact that the story is quite interesting at times, Donald Sutherland is in it and it has real stock footage.But we don't even see the boat sink! What kind of movie about a ship that sinks is that? Like a werewolf movie without werewolves...

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Lojsan
2003/09/08

The Baltic Storm is a very controversial story which I think have a lot of truth in it. It's about the big catastrophe in 1994 when the ship Estonia sank between Estonia and Sweden. Over 800 people died and only around 100 where saved.The survivors told about explosions and the proof also told that something wasn't right in the official story about what had happen.This movie is about that and it's quite interesting, but you should not expect any movie like Titanic. This is a movie which have been done to tell the alternative truth with a low budget.I recommend this movie to all you out there which don't buy all the crap politicians and other high people tells us.

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