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Dangerous Games

Original title: Ohtlikud mängud

1974 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

Youth film directed by Veljo Käsper tells about the wartime children, their courage and resistance to German occupation.

The capital of Estonia is occupied by Germans. Three local boys plan to blow off the cinema where the German soldiers often spend time at. However, their plans will change when they accidentally meet a mysterious stranger. A complicated and dangerous game begins where the rules are set by others than schoolkids.
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Kõik omad poisid

1974 | Students film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm
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FIre in the Night

Original title: Tuli öös

1973 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valdur Himbek

The children's film directed by Valdur HImbek is based on the story "Fire in the Darkened City" by Eno Raud, telling about the schoolchildren's fearless games with fire during the German occupation.

Ülo and Olev think the German occupation is humiliating and the soldiers are arrogant. But even among Estonians there are people who cannot be trusted - this can have fatal consequences. Witty schoolboys find out that Mr Velirand, who has moved in the apartment that once belonged to their teacher, is a henchman of Fascists. The boys make up their minds to give people warning about the provocator, even if the rebellion is risky and their opponent superior, compared to the St George's Night Uprising in 1343.
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Coast of Winds

Original title: Tuuline rand

1971 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the first part of the novel series "Coast of Winds" by Aadu Hint, depicting the events before and during the revolution of 1905 on the island of Saaremaa.

The people of Kaugatoma fisherman's village start to build their own ship in order to earn a living independently from the local baron who does everything to prevent the collective action. Despite that the new ship "Kaugatoma" will hoist its white sails. However, the power of money becomes decisive for organizing the collective action and for the captain, Tõnis Tihu, and his relationship with the local community and his family. He leaves his wife Liisu with whom he has a son and marries a well-off widow. As a captain, it lies in Tõnis's power to take care of his seamen, ...
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Wild Captain

Original title: Metskapten

1971 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kalju Komissarov

The film directed by Kalju Komissarov is based on the play "Kihnu Jõnn alias Wild Captain" by Juhan Smuul, telling about Enn Uuetoa, the legendary wild captain from Kihnu Island.

On its way to South America, the sailing ship "Fortuna" will be becalmed in the middle of Atlantic ocean. The crew starts going crazy because of the heat and thirst, men get violent and some of them tries to conjure up the wind. The captain Kihnu Jõnn must tame the desperate crew and make a deal with heavenly powers in order to take the ship and the crew to the port of destination.
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The Spring

Original title: Kevade

1969 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The first independent feature film directed by Arvo Kruusement is based on the story "The Spring" by Oskar Luts, depicting events of a school year in an Estonian church parish school at the end of 19th century. This lyrical and jolly youth story full of hope has been selected as the best Estonian feature film of all times.

During their winter term, the schoolchildren of Paunvere church parish school - Arno, Teele, Toots, Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik - experience feelings that they will always remember later in their lives: true friendship, first love, self-discovery and finding one's purpose in life. The story is full of colourful events, vivid characters, elaborate jokes and subtle emotions, telling about the development of young people during the most sensitive years of their lives.
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Vabastuse tund

1969 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
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Men in Soldier's Overcoats

Original title: Inimesed sõdurisinelis

1968 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Müür

The war drama directed by Jüri Müür is based on the novel "The Two Selves of Enn Kalm" by Paul Kuusberg. It is the first, and so far the only Estonian feature film depicting the Estonian Rifle Corps in the World War II, including the forming process of the corps in the Urals, its battles held at Velikiye Luki, on Emajõgi River and the night battle of Tehumardi on Saaremaa island. Considering the year of the film, it is not free from propaganda; however, for the first time bold and epic battle scenes together with the war chronicles are presented in this film. The soundtrack "Song About the Faraway Home" (music by Eino Tamberg, lyrics by Ralf Parve) is still a popular soldier song today.

After being mobilized to the Red Army and their hard experience in the battalions, Estonian soldiers are formed into the Estonian Rifle Corps. Many of them, including Enn Kalm, lack motivation to fight. On their long way back to homeland and during the battles at Velikiye Luki, the Estonian men will recover their strength and realize the idea of fighting. On the banks of Emajõgi River, Enn and his fellow soldiers have to face their compatriots who wear the enemy's uniform. What about the feelings and behaviour of the men who had to put on the soldier's overcoats due to ...
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Nõukogude relvajõud

1968 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek
Põuavälk

1968 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Jüri Škubel