The Fencer

The Fencer is a biographical drama film about Endel Nelis, an accomplished Estonian fencer and coach, directed by Klaus Härö and written by Anna Heinämaa. A young man with a troubled past, Endel arrives in Haapsalu in the early 1950s to escape the secret police and finds work as a teacher, where he starts teaching his students fencing. As he becomes a role model and father figure to the children, he must make a difficult choice when they want to participate in a national tournament in Leningrad.