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Tormipüha

1972 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peep Puks
Coast of Winds

Original title: Tuuline rand

1971 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the first part of the novel series "Coast of Winds" by Aadu Hint, depicting the events before and during the revolution of 1905 on the island of Saaremaa.

The people of Kaugatoma fisherman's village start to build their own ship in order to earn a living independently from the local baron who does everything to prevent the collective action. Despite that the new ship "Kaugatoma" will hoist its white sails. However, the power of money becomes decisive for organizing the collective action and for the captain, Tõnis Tihu, and his relationship with the local community and his family. He leaves his wife Liisu with whom he has a son and marries a well-off widow. As a captain, it lies in Tõnis's power to take care of his seamen, ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Veel kord merest

1971 | Documentary | Director: Tiina Mägi
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Gladiator

Original title: Gladiaator

1969 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

The personal drama directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the novel series "The Windy Shore" part III by Aadu Hint where the events take part during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The basic principles of both human lives and society are put to the test.

Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country. Joonas has hard times when coming back home - his efforts to improve the living conditions of his family will fail. It is namely the successful people who betray Joonas so that he has to face a real gladiator fight in order to understand the important things in life.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Toivo Kuzmin
The white land of Enderby

Original title: Enderby valge maa

1969 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt, Mati Kask

Documentary by Andres Sööt and Mati Kask portrays Antarctic expeditions and its polar stations in 1968-1969.

When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need ...
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Border guards

Title in Estonian: Piirivalvurid

1968 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

Documentary about the work and leisure moments of Soviet border guards.

Documentary about men who are always on guard while protecting the border of homeland. The film shows Soviet border guards during their daily work full of responsibility and at the leisure time – giving the soldier's oath, meetings with the close ones, during the training, at the night shift etc. Aleksei Müürisell, the head of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Estonian SSR, fastens the Order of Red Flag to the flag of 106th border guard group.
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Herring Fishery

Original title: Heeringapüük

1968 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Toivo Kuzmin

Soviet Estonian fishing trawler fishing herring out in the North Sea.

Documentary about the herring fishery by the trawler "Ocean" of the Soviet Estonian fishery industry in the North Sea. The film gives an overview about the whole fishing process - including mapping the herring school and unloading the catch to the freezer vessel.
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Kindlus meres

Title in Estonian: Fortress in the sea

1968 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Reet Kasesalu

Nesting area of sea birds in Vaika island.

Overview of the nesting area in Vaika island near the west coast of Vilsandi, Estonia. Observation of the behaviour of the birds from spring until the end of summer. Emotional episodes about seagulls, ducks and other birds. Scientific explanations about the life of birds in a remote, depopulated island.
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