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Magus planeet

1987 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Aarne Ahi
The Gang

Original title: Bande

1985 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

Political detective film directed by Arvo Kruusement based on the novel "The Glass Key" by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It tells the story of an election campaign in USA in 1920s.

Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Madvig's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case.
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Hell

Original title: Põrgu

1983 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat

The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".

The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".
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Monument

1981 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt
The Ideal Landscape

Original title: Ideaalmaastik

1980 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The first full-length feature film directed by Peeter Simm is based on the story "The deputy of spring sowing" by Karl Helemäe, analyzing the choices of a young man during the era of the establishment of collective farms in Estonian countryside.

The beginning of 1950s. Mait Kukemeri from the Young Communist League is appointed to improve the process of spring sowing in a collective farm. The leader of the collective farm together with his fellow farmers won't rush to the field since the soil is too wet for sowing and there is not enough seed grain. But the authorities want the results. So the young deputy has to find a solution at any price. He will discover new things about life and himself during that crazy yet bright spring.
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Vacuum Cleaner

Original title: Tolmuimeja

1978 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik
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Madness

Original title: Hullumeelsus

1968 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The tragicomedy directed by Kaljo Kiisk takes place in a mental hospital. Men ruled by the totalitarian regime reach the point where madness and normality hopelessly intermingle. The film was banned to be screened in the Soviet Union for 20 years.

Right before the end of the World War II, a special forces squad enters the mental hospital, located in a good-looking old manor house, in order to take away the patients. Yet, Gestapo has been informed that there is a spy hiding among the insane. Officer Windisch has to find the malingerer among the few hundred mentally ill patients and a chase begins.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1960 | Animation, Puppet, Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
Kutsu Juku seiklusi

1931 | Animation, Cartoon | Director:
Bear Hunt

Original title: Pühapäevakütid

1930 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Balduin Kusbock

The burlesque directed by Balduin Kusbock depicts the funny happenings of a naive priest and an ebrious sacristan during a bear hunt in Estonian winter.

The first banned Estonian film tells a grotesque story about the comical adventures of a naive priest and an ebrious sacristan during a winter bear hunt. The funny burlesque taking place in the beautiful landscape of Southern Estonia takes an unexpected turn when after the three day hunt the priest returnes home and instead of his modest wife he will find a fashionable looking woman. His wife has meanwhile been in town to get a close-cropped haircut and acquire modern social etiquette.
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