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Estonian War of Independence 1 (1919)

Title in Estonian: Eesti Vabadussõda

Amateur films Duration 06:12

Sünopsis

The Setu men. The row of Russian White Army soldiers, General Stanislav Bulak-Balakhovitsh and other officers performing military inspection. Imprisoned Red Army soldiers, examination of the prisoners' clothes: necklaces, Soviet roubles, cannon cartridges. Portrait photograph of captain Richard Borgelin, the commander of the Danish Volunteers Company. Danish volunteers in British safety helmets are working near the train echelon. Dixies and cannons on the platform car. Soldiers in train cars and on car roofs, the Danish flag is waving. Various goods and equipment on carriages, village men with horses. Danish volunteers lining up in the barrack yard, marching away. Armoured cars "Kalevipoeg", "Pisuhänd" and "Vanapagan". August Nieländer, head of the armoured car convoy and captain Einar Lundborg, head of the armoured car "Kalevipoeg". The squads are starting the engines and start driving, there are flags on the vehicles. Danish soldiers prepare for shooting positions near the windmill made of logs. The film ends with the photograph about the awarding of a soldier.

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