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Life in a Citadel

Original title: Elu tsitadellis

1947 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Herbert Rappaport

The first feature film produced in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, directed by Herbert Rappaport from Lenfilm production company. It is based on the play "Life in a Citadel" by August Jakobson and was awarded with the Stalin Prize. The film features many leading Estonian film actors of that time.

Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.
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From the Coast of Estonia to the Coast of Sweden

Title in Estonian: Eesti rannast Rootsi randa

1945 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Swedes leave Estonia in August 1944. Life of Estonians in Mölle Refugee Centre, Sweden in 1945.

Departure of the expatriate Swedes and Estonians from Estonia to Sweden in 1944 (recorded during August 27-28, 1944). Life of Estonian people in Mölle Refugee Centre in Sweden (filmed in 1945). Loading packages on the truck. Truck ride to the harbour of Haapsalu. People waiting for boarding in the harbour. People are eating. Schooner "Juhan" by the pier. Security police is giving out departure permissions, the cameraman focuses on Ludwig Lienhard. Horse carts loaded with suitcases by the pier. Mother is breastfeeding her baby. Checking the lists. The camera is on Harald Perten. Estonian Red Cross car in the harbour. ...
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Austav kohustus

1941 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Juhan Kuslap, E. Ballod
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Tunnustatud teadusemees

1941 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Juhan Kuslap, E. Ballod

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