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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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Taeva ja maa vahel

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Kivirand, Robi Uppin
Russian Metal and US $-Kiss

Original title of the film "Vene metalli ja US $ suudlus"

1993 | Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov, Artur Talvik

Documentary about Russian metal smuggling via Estonia.
Eesti Filmikroonika

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
Randlased

1990 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Toivo Kusmin
Rahutaevas

1987 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus
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Nõukogude Eesti

1985 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
On the west border

Title in Estonian: Läänepiiril

1976 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Valdur Himbek

Soviet border guards at work and in training.

Soviet border guards at work and in training in the border guard stations on the Western coast and islands of Estonia.
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Border guards

Title in Estonian: Piirivalvurid

1968 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

Documentary about the work and leisure moments of Soviet border guards.

Documentary about men who are always on guard while protecting the border of homeland. The film shows Soviet border guards during their daily work full of responsibility and at the leisure time – giving the soldier's oath, meetings with the close ones, during the training, at the night shift etc. Aleksei Müürisell, the head of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Estonian SSR, fastens the Order of Red Flag to the flag of 106th border guard group.
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