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Happy-Go-Lucky

Original title: Nipernaadi

1983 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the novel "Toomas Nipernaadi" (1928) by August Gailit, telling the story of a restless vagabond spending his summers with travelling on foot around the country.

While traveling around Estonia in summertime, Toomas Nipernaadi has no direction nor destination - he goes where the road takes him. People think their lives have been predestined and it should be taken as an inevitability until they meet Nipernaadi who likes to make up all kinds of stories and make people excited. He promises everyone happiness, love, and himself - but no one will ever get hold of him.
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Northern spirit

Title in Estonian: Põhjavaim

1982 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary about Mart Saar, founder of Estonian national music style.

Short documentary about a man whose life is full of sharp conflicts, sufferings and even nudity. It's Mart Saar who as a creative person raises above his destiny. The documentary studies Mart Saar's life and work throughout the years. Voiceover is read by Einar Kraut and Heino Mandri. Views of Leningrad and the times when Mart Saar studied in Leningrad Conservatoire. Archival footage about the song celebration of 1928 and New York City in 1930s. The essence and uniqueness of Hüpassaare.
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Bumpy

Original title: Nukitsamees

1981 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Helle Murdmaa

The debut feature film directed by Helle Murdmaa is based on the children's story "Bumpy" by Oskar Luts. It is a musical fairy tale about the good and the evil, represented by sister and brother, Iti and Kusti, and by the family of forest ogres. The songs written by Olav Ehala for the film have become nationally known and beloved while being chosen also to the repertoire of Estonian song festivals.

One beautiful morning the toddler of the forest ogre family gets a babysitter, a little girl named Iti. She and her brother Kusti have been decoyed into a deep forest by a witch who wants to make them work in her ogre's household. Despite the extremely hard times she has with the toddler, Iti won't lose her patience and the little Bumpy starts to behave like a normal child. His name - Bumpy - comes from the tiny horns he has on his head. When the children find the opportunity to escape, Bumpy won't hear of letting Iti go. Iti ...
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Mr. Vene's World

Original title: Härra Vene maailm

1981 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mark Soosaar

A humorous portrait of Mister Vene whose fantasies traverse daily life. This documentary flirts with fiction in an original way.

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1920-1994), self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge. For his whole life Leonhard has lived in Meossaare manor where he has all his life collected and restored antiquity and searched for the right place for valuable items. Beautiful old pieces of furniture fills the hall of the manor - the old man himself puts up with puritan conditions and lives in a small kitchen. He is always smiling and looks like he comes from the previous century. Leonhard Vene learns French and criticizes Einstein's theory of relativity. The old man lives ...
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Mängufilm Õpetaja võtetel

1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peep Puks
Nest of Winds

Original title: Tuulte pesa

1979 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Olav Neuland

The debut feature film directed by Olav Neuland about the disquieting life in an Estonian forest farm after the war, about the farmer's complicated relationships with forest brothers and the Soviet authorities. The leading roles are played by Rudolf Allabert and Evald Aavik; Tõnu Kark makes his debut as a film actor.

Despite the fact that war is over there is no peace in Mahtjamäe farm. Jüri Piir, the farmer, is pressurized either by the forest brothers or the village deputy following the orders of Soviet authorities. Foreign views and demands force Jüri to make difficult decisions.
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Sireen

1979 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm
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Unusual Case

Original title: Tavatu lugu

1973 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kalju Komissarov

The feature film directed by Kaljo Komissarov is introduced by the documentary scenes depicting protest movement against war and violence in 1960s. The youth drama that includes motifs from Antonioni's cult movie "Zabriskie Point" investigates a criminal case that will become unusual due to the generation gap, distrust and communication difficulties.

A freshly graduated criminalist is given an assignment to file a criminal arson case admitted by 18-year-old Epp-Kai. However, the criminalist cannot find the motive for the misdemeanour. His partner, an experienced investigator overloaded with work, finds it unnecessary to have long conversations with the accused. The young criminalist perceives that Epp-Kai has something to hide while having desperate struggle within herself in pre-trial detention, trying to find the right way out.
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Path of Impediments

Original title: Okkaline rada

1971 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vladimir Parvel

Portrait documentary by Vladimir Parvel about Konstantin Märska, the founder of Estonian film art and the first professional cinematographer in Estonia.

Documentary about Konstantin Märska, the founder of Estonian film art and the first professional cinematographer. The film tells about the film enthusiast's work and life full of impediments during the first Republic of Estonia. The excerpts from film chronicles and archival documents depict the story of a man who persistently fought for domestic feature film, even if due to the complicated circumstances he had to remain a documentary and film chronicle filmmaker. Märska as a talented cinematographer was able to document both public events as well as emotional scenes from daily life and poetical nature views about Estonia in 1930s ...
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Lack of Wind

Original title: Tuulevaikus

1970 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

The film directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the novel "The Seven Days of Tuisu Taavi" by Einar Maasik.

Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. Neither he nor other fishermen like that the fisheries inspector Olev has banned using motorboats on the lake, because of the possible injuries of fingerlings. Taavi is also concerned of the fact that Olev is often seen together with nurse Leili whom Taavi holds dear. But he is definitely not the guy who would just sit and wait for the better days.
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