Fantastic!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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.

A really good film with some fantastic acting, especially Jurgen Prochnow and also should hopefully give audiences greater understanding of the Estonia disaster. Over 800 people died when the ferry sank in 1994 and the official report was not well accepted by the victims families(depicted extremely well in the film by Prochnow). You don't need to know anything about the disaster to watch this film but by the end you will know a hell of a lot. Making use of both testimonies and Jutta Rabe's research this film makes for an extremely suspenseful two hours. The only thing that lets it down is the soundtrack which occasionally branches off into crazy moments when a few characters are introduced. Other than that, a really good film.

Just take a look at Tibor Taylor's performance... He is to be the star of the century!!! Watch out!!! What a guy!!! The industry needs nothing or nobody else but him, I'm more convinced of that than I'm convinced of anything else in this world... He is a real, I mean REAL star potential!!! I can't make that more clear... I have never been more convinced by any actor! This film if it's just for the sake of Tibor, should be the major sensation!!! I stand for it to full extent... Can't you see the genius??? Come on! I was fully taken! Can't wait to see him in more major productions... I'm sure it's bound to happen though, as I can't imagine anyone overlooking this major star that Tibor Taylor is... You, PRODUCERS do the world the favor and show some real genius to us! YOU will be doing lots of good to the world and surely to your own wallets! He is rocking and he will rock forever! GO ON!!!!

As has often been remarked, on one level this is a genuinely rotten movie - story, filming, etc. Many of the German actors are really good, but hardly in this flick. However, the movie is a "good thing" because it legitimately raises the point of the "Estonia" disaster - which after all has never been satisfactorily cleared up. The movie is banned in Sweden, and that alone makes it worth watching. (Imagine a movie on an US catastrophe that would be banned in the US because it implies government involvement - such as "JFK"!) We do not know what caused the sinking of the "Estonia", but we do know it was not an accident as reported, and it is not exactly far-fetched to surmise that the Swedish government is implicated, at the very least, in the hush-up of whatever caused it. It's good that this movie reminds the audience of that. The comments on this site that such a movie shouldn't have been made because that would capitalize on the victims and their relatives is outright bizarre - if anything, this movie, rotten as it is, is one of the few monuments for the victims; not adequate, but still.