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The Opinionator

Original title: Meeleavaldaja

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Muhu

Retired Esja Šur, a Russian citizen living in Sillamäe, Estonia spends her elderly days while organizing demonstrations, meetings and pickets.

Journalists write about her, politicians tremble because of her, Estonians curse her and the Security Police observes her - the energetic old woman Esja Šur organizes demonstrations, writes memorandums and claims. Even if the efficiency of all her activities is close to zero, the old lady won't give up. Esja enjoys the beauty of the game; her sense of humour becomes prominent in situations where her opponents feel confused. All this is accompanied by a court action that has gradually grown into a big case.
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Ferdinand

2002 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andri Luup

Feature film debut by director Andri Luup about escaping from boredom of life, routine and emptiness and the journey back to the self and the meaning of existence.

Bus driver Ferdinard is tired of his work and life. The confused man makes one mistake after another at work and finally he stops the bus with passengers on a railway crossing and leaves. While aimlessly wandering around the city, Ferdinand makes up his mind to try out all social models he knows in order to find his balance in life. Policeman Kerstensen, also tired of his job and life, starts to follow Ferdinand. During the existentialist cat-and-mouse game, Ferdinand will finally find the meaning of existence and to his true self.
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Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

2001 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

Documentary about the possibilities to preserve the wooden architecture of a city in contemporary urban environment with the examples from Baltic states and Scandinavia. Filmmakers follow the renovation works of an old wooden house in Väike-Patarei Street, Kalamaja district in Tallinn. During one year, the house will be restored into the condition of a contemporary residential house. Both experts and city residents from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia etc. share their opionions about the future and sustainability of the subject of restoring wooden architecture. For decades, renovating wooden architecture was considered something unimportant.
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So long, Dracula!

Title in Estonian: Isake Dracula Eesti variant

1993 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

Anatomy of totalitarism. Sarcastic retrospect to the darkest era in Estonian history during 20th century.

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his era when poets wrote him odes and poems but the bushwhackers sang: " ... and our aim is to kill Stalin". From the tribunes, Stalin was addressed as "the great friend of Estonian nation", nevertheless, for the majority of Estonian Stalin's name embodied the violence and lies that hit Estonia. This influenced all areas of life and no-one was left untouched by the terror. The documentary breakrs the myth about the joint resistance of Estonian nation to the foreign power and gives the warning that there is the possibility that similar things could happen again.
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Why do the stars fall

Original title: Miks kukuvad tähed

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary on problematic issues directed by Märt Müür whose film tells a story about diligent and successful heads of collective farm and how the Soviet system has unjustly harassed them, found them guilty and punished them.

The sincere documentary about the heads of collective farms in Soviet Estonia who have worked hard without being afraid of risk and responsibility. However, due to the pressure by the Communist Party, its authorities envy and out-dated legislation they had to pay for it with their positions, health and often with their lives. Vello Tire, head of Viiratsi pig farm, died at the age of 51; Tomas Sooaluste, the head of Gagarin Sovkhoz Tech School, died at the age of 43; Georg Suurmets, the head of Energia collective farm, became disabled. The author of the documentary, Märt Müür, discusses the ...
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Aksel Mark Giving an Interview on July 17, 1986

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu annab Aksel Mark 17.07.1986

1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with politician and editor Aksel Mark in his home in Uppsala on July 17, 1986: among other things, he recalls the War of Independence, university studies, working experience in the field of agronomy, fraternity "Veljesto", political life in the Republic of Estonia, the beginning of the Second World War, escape to Finland.

Interview with policitian and editor Aksel Mark in his home in Uppsala on July 17, 1986. He shortly recalls of his home and father, completing two years of elementary school instead of four in Karaski. When he talks about the War of Independence, he remembers the refugees and his father's imprisonment. Mark served in the artillery of the defence forces. He studied agronomy at the University of Tartu and recalls his lecturers. Memories of the fraternity "Veljesto". He started to work as an agricultural adviser in Rakvere in 1937 and continued in Viru-Jaagupi. Aksel Mark points out the positive aspects ...
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Defitsiit

1985 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Hagi Šein
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Töö

1985 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Elme
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Intervjuu peaministriga presidendi ülesannetes Tõnis Kindiga 28.08.1983

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu peaministriga presidendi ülesannetes Tõnis Kindiga 28.08.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu interviews Tõnis Kint, Prime MInister performing the duties of the President, in Uppsala.

Tõnis Kint was the Prime Minister performing the duties of the President in 1970-1990. He is talking about his education: as a boy from the countryside, he was lucky to get to study at Tartu Secondary Science School (Realschule), continued his studies in Riga but was soon mobilized into the Russian army. The future studies were interrupted due to the wars. Kint was in Moscow in the historical year of 1917 during the revolutions, in Krasnoye Selo and Petrograd defending the Winter Palace. He made it to Estonia in December 1917. Manifesto of the Peoples of Estonia was proclaimed in ...
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The Town of Honeymakers

Original title: Meemeistrite linn

1983 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.
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