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Juhan Liivi lugu

1975 | Popular Sciences, Educational, Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Peep Puks
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Toompea Castle throughout the years

Original title: Aastatega läbi Toompea lossi

1975 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

Academician Harald Haberman tells about his contacts with Toompea Castle during the Republic of Estonia and the Soviet times.

Harald Haberman (1904-1986), a Communist and later an acknowledged biologist, held a position of the chief of public defence for two years during the occupation of Estonia in 1940. Haberman recollects his experience with Toompea Castle. The filmmakers have used materials from the collections of central archives of film, photographs and phonographs of Estonian SSR, Museum of History of Estonian SSR, central archives of the history of Estonian SSR and Tallinn City Museum.
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Eesti ravilad

1973 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
Unsent Invoices

Original title: Esitamata arved

1973 | Documentary | Director: Virve Aruoja

Documentary about Kirov collective fishery, one of the most leading collective farms in Estonia in 1970s, and the welfare of the local people.

The documentary belongs to the series "Ten minutes around the Soviet Union" and gives an overview of the laborious workers in Kirov collective fishery of Estonian SSR in order to increase the local standard of living. The film studies the role of social consumer funds in satisfying people's personal needs. 4260 members of the collective farm receive free services for 60 roubles per year. It is emphasized that the benefits and the costs of the collective farm as well as the increase in people's standard of living has been achieved thanks to the excellent organization of collective action. Despite the ...
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The beginning

Original title: Algus

1972 | Documentary | Director: Valeria Anderson

The third-graders of Tallinn 21st Secondary School before joining the Communist pioneer movement.

The staged documentary is a warm and heartfelt story about activities of third-graders at the beginning of 1970s. Teacher Helle Raigna and her pupils congratulate the birthday children at the 3rd grade in Tallinn 21st Secondary School. The pupils prepare for joining the Communist pioneer movement, so they have to study the rules first. The teacher has separate conversations with some of them discussing their behaviour. The filmmakers have recorded the colourful expressions of the children as well as the school milieu reminding of the atmosphere of Estonian parish school in late 19th entury.
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We are the ones who celebrate

Original title: Me ise peolised

1972 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Ülo Tambek

Reportage film about the Youth Song and Dance Festival in 1972.

The 3rd Youth Song and Dance Festival of Estonian SSR took place on June 23-25, 1972 and it was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization and foundation of the Soviet Union. The documentary shows the festival procession and the festival celebrations.
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El Dorado

Original title: Eldoraado

1971 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

Artistic documentary by Ülo Tambek about oil shale mining and the life of miners in Estonia in 1970s.

Every generation and every individual has always had their personal land of promise, El Dorado, land of wishes coming true and of high hopes. When one struggles for survival, the results can sometimes be unpredictable; yet, there are places where people are given everything they have ever dreamed. Even the oil shale mining has seen adventurers, some have left, some have stayed to the end so that the word "miner" has meant everything for them. El Dorado is the land where one ceaselessly fights for their happiness and territory, from generation to generation.
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Flame of song

Original title: Laululeek

1969 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Documentary commissioned by the Central Television of the Soviet Union about the anniversary of Estonian song celebration in 1969.

17th Song Celebration took place in Tallinn on June 27-29, 1969. Two weeks before the big event a song festival was held in Tartu, with the purpose to pay honor to the first song celebration that was held there a hundred years ago. Since there were only male participants in the first festival, there were also only male and boys' choirs and brass bands in Tartu's festival in 1969.
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Leelo

1969 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Jüri Müür

Documentary about the jubilee song celebration held in 1969.

Male choirs perform the song "Leelo" composed by Mart Saar, conducted by Gustav Ernesaks. Lighting the song celebration torch fire in Tartu and its journey through the summer-time Estonia to Tallinn. The procession of the song celebration and lighting the festival torch fire in Tallinn. Performance by joint choirs and women's choirs. The camera depicts Gustav Ernesaks, Arvo Ratassepp, Heino Kaljuste. Views to the monuments of Lydia Koidula, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Carl Robert Jakobson, Miina Härma etc. Honouring of the general leaders of the song celebration.
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Maa, maja, loom

1969 | Documentary | Director: Ants Kivirähk
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