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Working Title: Wunderkind

Original title: Tööpealkiri: Imelaps

2012 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills.

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills. Alex completes his first composition aged eight and enters the St. Petersburg Conservatory aged 13, where he graduates in the composition and conducting master classes in 2010, aged 17. It is his mother in particular who pushes her son's career: She arranges concerts with leading orchestras in Russia and England, she admonishes him to practise and negotiates his contracts. And ...
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Wunderkind

Original title: Tsirkuselaps

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

As a five-year-old prodigy, he became a circus attraction. At the age of eight, the young virtuoso entertained Tsar Nicholas II and his Court. By the age of 17, he was an eagerly anticipated performer on the best stages of Europe. A year later, he conquered America as a xylophone virtuoso. He has been referred to as the world’s best jazz imitator. A tap-dancer and superb violinist. Audiences in Soviet Russia gave him standing ovations… in Soviet Georgia, he was the object of mass adulation. His stage career lasted for 80 years. So, who was this amazing artist?... The answer awaits you in ...
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Georg

Original title: Georg

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The drama directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the life of Georg Ots - one of the most well-known Estonian opera singers of all times. The screenplay by Mati Põldre and Aleksandr Borodyanski is based on the memoirs of Asta Ots.

The life of Georg Ots (1920-1975), the most well-known Estonian opera singer, was full of changes and difficulties. He started with the career of an engineer; later during the times of war he found himself as a musician in Yaroslavl. Georg Ots's extraordinary talent and dedication made him a nationwide star in the whole Soviet Union; however, there are two sides of every coin. It is a very personal story about love and marriage, celebrity and jealousy, self-realization and self-destruction.
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Poeme d´Amour

Original title; Armastuse poeem

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Airi Kasera

World-famous violinist Evi Liivak, a former prodigy, is being portrayed through her husband's and friends' points of view.

Biographical documentary about a former prodigy, world-famous violinist Evi Liivak (1924-1996). The film introduces the life of a talented musician who was born in VIljandi, Estonia and who lived her life in New York. The main storyteller of the film is a widowed old gentleman Richard Anschuetz who was living and working together with Evi Liivak since the postwar years. There is noble dignity in the old man's admiration, silent contemplations, descriptions of the past and mutual relationships where the attachment to each other and to art will be revealed.
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Artist

1986 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui

Portrait documentary by Heini Drui about Vladimir Sapozhnin, the state artist of Estonian SSR.

Portrait documentary about Vladimir Sapozhnin alias Boba, a state artist of Estonian SSR. A former wunderkind and multitalent who started to perform already when five years old, he is still in shape today, celebrating his 80th birthday and 75th anniversary of being on stage. The documentary brings the viewers to the artist's home; shows him dancing on his birthday party; and playing violin in Cafe Moskva, in Tallinn vital registration record office and in Viru variety club at a late night.
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Kevad südames

1985 | Musical film, TV feature, TV feature | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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