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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Traitor

Original title: Reetur

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Philip Kaat, Ali Moniri

The quiet morning routine of a married couple is interrupted when a stranger appears on their doorstep asking for help.

Darius, a Middle-Eastern backpacker witnesses a crime in the woods of Estonia and takes a photo of it. The criminals give chase and Darius ends up begging for help on the doorstep of Jaan and Kaia, an older married couple. The foreigner makes Jaan suspicious and he refuses to help. However, when the criminals appear at the door as well, we realize that the main thug is the couple’s son, with who their relationship has festered. Kaia has given up hope and tells Jaan to let Darius in, but Jaan decides to remain impartial, therefore losing the respect of both ...
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Visitors from the sky

Original title: Külalised

2002 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rein Kotov, Piret Tibbo-Hudgins

Documentary about the life and mission of the foreign espionage agents of Estonian origin in the Soviet Estonia in 1950s.

After the Second World War, Western intelligence decided to become more active in the Baltic states. At the same time, Moscow came up with the plan to take over Western intelligence service completely. British, Swedish and American intelligence sent refugee agents to the Baltic states - their first contact in the homeland was a KGB special squad consisting of staged bushwhackers. The camouflage turned out to be perfect and the game lasted for years. Only a few ones stayed alive and returned back to the West. They changed their names, forgot their homeland and relatives and disappeared. They had to ...
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Rasked aastad

1973 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Vladimir Karasjov
Lindpriid I osa

1971 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Vladimir Karasjov
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Predecessor

Original title: Eelkäija

1967 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Karasjov

Artistic, photographic documentary by Vladimir Karasyov about the life of Viktor Kingissepp and the revolutionary events in Estonia.

The documentary based on photographs and archival documents tells about the life of Viktor Kingissepp and the revolutionary events in Estonia. WIth the help of the scarce documentary materials that have been preserved, filmmakers try to cast light on the life of the revolutionist, starting from his early years in Kuressaare until his death in 1922. The film provides an opportunity to take a look at Viktor Kingissepp's thoughts and the events of that time as if viewed by the protagonist himself a few hours before his execution.
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Rahvavaenu miiting L.Beria tegevuse hukkamõistmine Kalinini-nim. Tallinna Veduri-ja Vaguniremonditehases

1953 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski