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Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Playing Pärt

Original title: Mängime Pärti

2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre.

In 2011 the Old Town Music School of Collegium Educationis Revaliae and the International Arvo Pärt Centre together staged a student concert of works by Arvo Pärt in Tallinn`s Swedish St Michael`s Church. The duble DVD package is a recording of the concert and the rehearsals.
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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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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé
Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

Original title: Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 etüüdi piltides

2010 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film portrait by Marianne Kõrver about Estonian renowned composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

What does it really mean to be a composer? How is a musical work born? How do the first shivers of a thought and a graphical image turn into the first bars and further to a whole piece? What is a composer‘s responsibility towards his audience? The documentary observes different sides of being a composer – from writing a piece in the solitude of the woods of Hirmuste in the island Hiiumaa to orchestral rehearsals in cooperation with acclaimed conductors Paavo Järvi and Anu Tali, the travels and presentations in different parts of the world – Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and, naturally, ...
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Doctor Grossmann's Land of the Gods

Original title: Doktor Grossmanni jumalate maa

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Galina Grossmann is an exceptional woman who paints Jesus, composes an opera about Jesus and performs the musical work with the influences of Estonian folklore to the residents of a retirement home.

Galina Grossmann has the Doctoral degree in biological sciences, she is an inventor and health adviser - for instance, she has invented a unique slimming method called Lipolitic. Besides, Galina Grossmann is a composer, poet, singer, dancer and a painter. In the summer of 2008, her newest musical work "Land of the Gods" premiered in Munalaskme nursing home. Her work tells the story about Jesus Christ who survived on the cross and who was taken to the Land of Gods - Estonia - in a fancy horse carriage by Estonian spirits. Kaamera jälgib „Jumalate maa” sünnilugu alates esimestest helidest ja ...
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Estonian Stories. Pastacas

Original title: Pastacas

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Kotov

Portrait documentary by Rein Kotov about Estonian musician and artist Ramo Teder alias Pastacas who lives in Finland.

Pastacas alias Ramo Teder is a mystical man who makes beautiful yet weird folktronica musica and uses a ball-point pen to draw on his paintings. His music has listeners from Helsinki to Tokyo. Ramo Teder was born in rural Estonia and now lives in a small village in South-Western Finland with his Finnish wife Piia and seven-year-old daughter Pihla. Pastacas composes his music out of miniature parts that form a lyrical and weird whole. Ramo is a traveler and a musician, an Estonian artist abroad.
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Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov

Original title: Dialoogid. Helilooja Valentin Silvestrov

2008 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of finest composers of his generation.

Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of the finest composers of his generation. Music is the meaning of life for him. Music that keeps flowing out of him. If music remains concealed, this would simply suffocate him.
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Yearning for Love

Original title: Armuigatsus

2007 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg

Musician Arved Haug has created a lot of music for variety shows. During the last decades of his life his muse was actress Anne-Reet Margiste - then the composer wrote his most lyrical, soulful and beautiful songs.

The songs from the music record "I Will Send My Shadow" (1996) by composer Arved Haug (1922-1995) reveal a special period in the composer's life. The story of love between Arved Haug and actress Anne-Reet Margiste strongly influenced Haug's creativity when he wrote many emotional songs. Eri Klas, Ivo Linna, Vello Orumets, Vello Mikk, Urmas Arumäe, Ago Roo, Volli Käro and others share their memories about Arved Haug - a diverse musician and a great personality. The documentary was made for Arved Haug's 85th birth anniversary.
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