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Freedom or Death

Original title of the film "Vabadus või surm"

1995 | Documentary | Director: Artur Talvik
Call-girl´s Christmas

Original title; Ööliblika jõulud

1994 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Artur Talvik, Rein Kotov

Documentary about 19-year-old Kerstin who has come to look for happiness and sell her body in Tallinn, Estonia.

Portrait documentary about a country girl who has hopes for the better future and comes to Tallinn to sell her body in order to look for happiness and make a living. This is an honest story about an eager young woman who has chosen a difficult, sometimes even dangerous profession as a "female servant for men". The film observers the optimistic girl's naive expectations towards future and harsh ordeals in Neo-Capitalist Estonia in early 1990s.
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Russian Metal and US $-Kiss

Original title of the film "Vene metalli ja US $ suudlus"

1993 | Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov, Artur Talvik

Documentary about Russian metal smuggling via Estonia.
CBC News - Estonian boy Kristo

Original title: CBC News - Kristo saabus ravile Montreali

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

CBC News's story about an Estonian boy who arrives in Canada to receive orthopedic treatment.

CBC News's story about a 4-year-old Estonian boy who arrives in Canada to receive medical treatment. Montreal Hospital has offered a reduced price for the boy's treatment, local Estonians in Toronto have also given their support. Malle Maria Leitham from Montreal Estonian Society comments on the story. The little boy's feet require orthopedic treatment. Kriso with his mother in the hospital room. Doctor Edward Said is speaking about his treatment in the news. The film shows Kristo's arrival in Toronto, Mother's Day concert in Estonian Baptist Church in Toronto, Kriso playing with her mother in the playground. In his hospital ...
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The State Elder, Part II

Original title: Riigivanem II

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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Forgive us Andrey

Title in Estonian: Andesta Andrei

1990 | Documentary | Director: Raivo Suviste

Portrait documentary directed by Raivo Suviste about academician Andrey Sakharov, Nobel Prize laureate.

Andrey Sakharov (May 21, 1921–December 14, 1989) was Russian nuclear physicist, social activist and dissident. Since 1948, he participated in developing of thermonuclear weapons. In late 1950s, Sakharov started to worry about the consequences of his achievements and tried to avoid arms race while writing letters to the Soviet authorities. He was arrested in 1980 due to his protest against the Afghan War and he was sent to house arrest in Gorsky where he lived under the surveillance of Militia until 1986 when Mikhail Gorbachev let him free. Andrey Sakharov gives an interview in this documentary nineteen days before his ...
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A Man Who Never Was

Original title: Inimene, keda polnud

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The period film directed by Peeter Simm is dedicated to those working at radio stations in Estonia. Events from the lives of Imbi Valgemäe, Mari Möldre and Ruut Tarmo are brought to the viewer. Based on the oral and written memoirs of radio and theatre people.

Imbi Tamm has grown up together with the sounds and voices of radio broadcasting. She becomes an adult during the 1940s - the cataclysmic years in Estonian history. When she starts her career as a radio voice with high hopes and optimism in Stalinist Estonia, she will collide with the reality of the era where people's fate, sufferings and happiness depend on current ideology and government. The film is dedicated to the memory of the radio voices that have been accompanied the lives of many generations.
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Why do the stars fall

Original title: Miks kukuvad tähed

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary on problematic issues directed by Märt Müür whose film tells a story about diligent and successful heads of collective farm and how the Soviet system has unjustly harassed them, found them guilty and punished them.

The sincere documentary about the heads of collective farms in Soviet Estonia who have worked hard without being afraid of risk and responsibility. However, due to the pressure by the Communist Party, its authorities envy and out-dated legislation they had to pay for it with their positions, health and often with their lives. Vello Tire, head of Viiratsi pig farm, died at the age of 51; Tomas Sooaluste, the head of Gagarin Sovkhoz Tech School, died at the age of 43; Georg Suurmets, the head of Energia collective farm, became disabled. The author of the documentary, Märt Müür, discusses the ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1985 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Raul Tammet
Surgery

Original title: Lõikus

1984 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary by Peep Puks about Toomas Sulling, a reknowned heart surgeon, and his operating team.

Reportage documentary about the story of an operation - how a patient reaches the operating table and how the operation saves his/her life. Filmmakers follow the daily work of cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Toomas Sulling and his team. The surgeons are around the operating table in the department of cardiac reanimation in North Estonia Medical Centre. Heart surgeon Toomas Sulling operates cardiac blood vessels on a patient who later shares his experience about his illness and the process of getting better.
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