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The Winds of Milky Way

Original title: Linnutee tuuled

1977 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

The sequel to „The Waterfowl People“. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970.

Documentary of cultural anthropology about the ethnography and ethnogenesis of the Finno-Ugric peoples is a sequel to the documentary "The Waterfowl People" (1970) directed by Lennart Meri. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970. The film ...
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Behind the Plough

Original title: Adra järel

1976 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

Debut documentary by Märt Müür gives a bold and professional overview about the production of ploughing equipment inappopriate for non-chernozemic fields.

Incisive documentary on problematic issues - about the deficiencies and inability to co-ordinate the designing and production process of ploughing machinery for the high-capacity tractors. The filmmakers interview the chief engineers and other managers of the Soviet production associations Soyuzpochvoma and Odessapochvomash. The documentary was completed in collaboration with the Estonian Agricultural Technology Association.
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Viies veerand

1976 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Harry Karro
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Our time

Title in Estonian: Meie aeg

1975 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

Establishment of collective farms and the successful activities of three collective farms in the present day.

Almost thirty years have passed since the establishment of collective farms in Estonian SSR. The filmmakers ask what the collective farms have achieved during these years and how agriculture functions. The answers are given by the people from three collective farms and the heads of the collective farms - those of Aravete, Leie and Estonia. Episodes about the everyday life in collective farms and the film chronicles about the era of the first Republic of Estonia, about the rural life and founding of collective farms. Voiceover by Mikk Mikiver.
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The Annual Ring

Original title: Aastaring

1974 | Documentary | Director: Rein Maran

The film about the life of Estonian children and youth in the TV film series "Children of the Soviet Union".

A child's voice in the film: "When a tree gets a year older, it will grow a new ring on its trunk. The rains and droughts, storms and sunny days – everything has been written in the ring. Every day that has been lived fully leaves a mark in us." The summer and activities of Estonian children throughout one year. The filmmakers observe young film amateurs in a summer camp in Paatsalu, in Tartu House of Pioneers, in Tõravere observatory, the gathering of the student league. Together they visit Krabi forest district in Paganamaa and the student exhibition in Tallinn. ...
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The field has no ceiling

Title in Estonian: Põllul pole lage

1974 | Documentary | Director: Jüri Müür

Documentary directed by Jüri Müür about the daily problems in the field of agriculture - worries about its development and the future tasks.

Documentary about the daily problems in the agriculture of Estonian SSR, its developmental problems and future tasks. There are numerous problems: deficiencies in land improvement, lack of spare parts of agricultural tools, disorganization in agricultural work and fertilizer production, transportation issues etc. Did the joint farms and collective farms established in the Soviet Estonia bring the golden era for farmers?
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Kombainer Elmina Otsman

1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Tahe vastutada

1973 | Documentary | Director: Uno Maasikas, Rein Maran
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Võõras higi

1973 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jüri Müür
... forever rich

Title in Estonian: ... põline rikas

1972 | Documentary | Director: Arnold Altmäe

Contemplation on how the new generation of farmers relate to work and home in the countryside.

People living in rural areas and the changes in today's life in the countryside. Ott Kooli, journalist and the director of the film, contemplates on rural life, both of its past and its present. Various agricultural work has been filmed in Haljala collective farm, the film also depicts men fixing machines in a shop and talking about work. The closer look is taken at the Kesküla family who besides the work at the collective farm continues also preserving the traditions of Estonian farm life. Moments from the state plowing competitions.
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