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  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    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.

  • Leonhard Lapin. Process
    Leonhard Lapin. Process

    Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

    This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

  • The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road

    Original title in Finnish: Ikitie

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

    Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.

  • Seal Siberis Baikali taga
    Seal Siberis Baikali taga

    1991 | Popular Sciences | Director: Dietmar Buchmann

  • A Momentous Contribution
    A Momentous Contribution

    Title in Estonian: Kaalukas panus

    1990 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

    This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.

  • Forgive us Andrey
    Forgive us Andrey

    Title in Estonian: Andesta Andrei

    1990 | Documentary | Director: Raivo Suviste

    Portrait documentary directed by Raivo Suviste about academician Andrey Sakharov, Nobel Prize laureate.

  • Kahe kodu ballaad   I seeria
    Kahe kodu ballaad I seeria

    1985 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Ago-Endrik Kerge

  • Kahe kodu ballaad  II seeria
    Kahe kodu ballaad II seeria

    1985 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Ago-Endrik Kerge

  • Kutse sõprusringi
    Kutse sõprusringi

    1982 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Georg Jegorov

  • Kõrge tunnustus. Rahvast Sõpruse ordeni andmisest Eesti NSV-le
    Kõrge tunnustus. Rahvast Sõpruse ordeni andmisest Eesti NSV-le

    1974 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

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