The battle takes up 3.5 minutes in the film and is mainly represented by maps and captions. Ludendorff was the only one who managed to reach the town past the fortifications, which made him a hero. In the film, the conquest of Belgium is confined to the battle of Liège, one of the towns closest to the German border, circled by fortifications. The violation of Belgian sovereign territory, which according to international agreements would stay neutral, is not mentioned. In the original film, this battle scene was indicated by the intervening caption 'Siegesrauschen', which is lacking in the compilation film. 1944's first week also broke records by achieving 44,879 admissions, the highest ever for an Estonian film that premiered in Estonia.The first historical battle to be waged was the one with Belgium at the beginning of August 1914. With local opening weekend admissions at 19,030 1944 set a new opening weekend record for an Estonian film, beating the previous record of 15,611 admissions set by Names in Marble in 2002. In Estonia, 1944 was a huge box office success. The film has been banned in the Russian Federation. On the film aggregation website IMDb, 1944 has a weighted average score of 7.5/10, based on votes from 1,005 users. The film was funded by the Estonian Film Institute, the Estonian Ministry of Defence, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and private investments. It then continued at the start of the summer of 2014 where filming also took place at the Sinimäed Hills. The first part of filming took place in October 2013 till the Easter break of 2014.
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