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Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship

Original title: Õpetusi kosmoselaeva ehituseks

2015 | Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema

A film about a bunch of brainiacs, who, having seen too many sci-fi movies, start building the first Estonian student satellite Estcube to send it to outer space. They are comforted by the fact that in space technology nothing is certain and they are most likely to fail. Nothing to lose!

Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship is a film about a brainiacs who have seen too many sci-fi movies, start building the first Estonian student satellite- Estcube. Its a film about its building, launching and life after the success. Mart Noorma PhD, one of the main characters of the film, is the initiator of and the engine behind the project, or the supervisor, officially speaking. The satellite was primarily built by students, namely around 90 of them, who have been associated with the project over the years. Estcube was launched in the spring of 2013, amidst of loud media ...
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EINASTO 11577

Original title: EINASTO 11577

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helle Karis

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto.

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto. The minor planet of our galaxy, bearing the number 11 577 and discovered on February 8, 1994 by Eric W. Elst, astronomer of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was named Einasto by the Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union. Einasto, together with other minor planets linked with Estonia, orbits around the Sun, taking 3.84 years or 1400 days to complete its path. The main goal of the film is to bring science closer to common people by showing the ...
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Journey to Ararat

Original title of the film: Teekond Araratile

2011 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik
Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time

Original title: Monoloogid 3D

2011 | Documentary | Director: Arko Okk

The documentary gives a minimalistic portrait about Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia, through the recollections by his contemporaries.

President Lennart Meri is being remembered by his contemporaries Ain Kaalep, Erast Parmasto, Andres Tarand, Veli-Olavi Klami, Aleksandr Bertelov, Ignar Fjuk and Eino Tamberg. Their recollections reanimate the hidden paths and seek for the meaning that was once born there. This is the first 3D documentary produced in Estonia.
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Lotman's World

Original title: Lotmani maailm

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Agne Nelk

Portrait documentary with humorous touch tells about Juri Lotman, a world famous semiotician. The film is based on archival materials.

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. ...
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Spe Fretus - Relying on Hope

Original title: Spe Fretus - lootusele tuginedes

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Leesme
Life's Work

Title in Estonian: Elutöö

1983 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Portrait documentary about a meritorious scientist and stateman Johan Eichfield.

Johan Eichfeld (1893–1989) was an Estonian biologist, agricultural scientist and statesman; doctor of agriculture (1936), member of the Academy of Sciences of Estonian SSR (1946) and president (1950-1968). Filmmakers observe Johan Eichfeld's work and life when Johan is ninety years old. The elderly academician is still active, working in his rose garden, talking to the students of the school in Väätsa parish that is also Johan's birth place. The documentary talks about Eichfeld's life and career: founding a polar experimental station in Kola Peninsula; scientific research in soil and swamp science; breeding several types of roses; his activities as the ...
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Kartulikasvatus

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
UDA-AU

1980 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Elme
ENSV Teaduste Akadeemia üldkogu koosolek

1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu