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Siberia has also been my homeland

Title in Estonian: Ka Siber on olnud mu kodumaa

1990 | Documentary | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary directed by Märt Müür about his family, deportation and meetings with people with similar destinies.

The author of the documentary is mainly recalling his personal experience, events, emotions and memories. Together with the film's author there are also his close relatives and people with similar destiny met during the times in Siberia. People recollect various events in a foreign country outside Matsimärdi farm. While being based on today's beliefs, Märt Müür attempts to form a collective portrait of thousands of people with tragic destinies, once deported from Estonia to Siberia.
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On Brainds

Title in Estonian: Oraste peal

1989 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary about the activities of new farm owner and various attitudes about re-establishing of farms.

Documentary observes the activites of two new farm owners with different attitudes towards the re-establishing of farms.
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Teade parlamendile

1989 | Anthropological, Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik
Troubles in Photography

Title in Estonian: Fotomure

1989 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Observations by Peeter Tooming about the history and present situation of Estonian history.

Photography exhibition "My life in pictures" held in Kiek in de Kök. The author of the exhibition Vaho Eier works as a bus driver in Stockholm already for the past 30 years. Photography as a chronicle. Browsing through an album. The old town of Tallinn. Exposition in Raemuuseum: photographs by Heinrich Tiidermann, the Parikas brothers, Johannes Mülberg. Valter Lemberg with his wife Evi who recalls that right after getting married in 1924 they started to make art photography together with her husband. Due to the war they continued the work abroad. The panorama of Gothenburg. Photography exhibition is opened at ...
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Farewell to Borodin

Original title: Lahkumine Borodinist

1988 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary by Peeter Tooming about the possibility of life in Kunda, the town of cement.

Kunda is a small industrial town in Northern Estonia. The daily life of the town is both literally and metaphorically influenced by the cement factory. Director Peeter Tooming wonders what the future of the town in an ecological and social sense will be.
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In Aid of Life

Original title: Aidake meid elada

1988 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary by Märt Müür about the life of Kalev Raave - a head of agricultural holding, member of the communist party and a social activist.

The life of Kalev Raave - a well-known head of an agricultural holding, member of the Communist Party and a social activist - is turned upside down at some point. Raave has been awarded orders and medals; yet, in 1986 he was taken into custody because of an anynymous letter. His case is to draw attention to the torments caused by the authoritarian administration of justice; as a result, the people necessary for society will be suppressed. When Raave left the prison, he found his path to God and started to study theology.
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Zoo-Tallinn

1988 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Rein Maran
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Garage

Title in Estonian: Garaaž

1987 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

Documentary about the lack of garages at the end of 1980s.

The increasing number of cars causes the lack of garages. The documentary studies problems related to garage construction, especially in Tartu. Comments by Rein Kams, head of department of the executive committee in Tartu; jurist Silvi Lill; Rein Metsnik, professor of the institute of information; Andres Leesment, head of department of the state construction committee; Raal Kivi, the chief architect of Tartu; Valdur Seesmaa, head of the construction service government in Tartu; Jüri Alakivi, head of the construction trust in Tartu; Härm Ruuse, chairman of a garage cooperative in Tallinn.
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Why do the stars fall

Original title: Miks kukuvad tähed

1987 | Problem oriented, Documentary | 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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Alternatiiv

1986 | Documentary | Director: Vello Pohla
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