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  • Hereditas
    Hereditas

    Original title: Hereditas

    1997 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Liina Kulles

    In the area surrounding the Dominican monastery in the heart of Tallinn, unique spiritual and cultural life has emerged that influences the entire city.

  • Šamaan
    Šamaan

    1997 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    „The Shaman“ was filmed on July 16, 1977 in the northernmost coast of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam River, simultaneously with the shooting of the documentary „The Winds of the Milky Way“. The Nganasan shaman Demnime (1913 ̶1980) was 64 years old at the time. The documentary about Demnime's incantation ritual was completed 20 years later.

  • Georg Ots Music Days 1990
    Georg Ots Music Days 1990

    Title in Estonian: Georg Otsa muusikapäevad 1990

    1990 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Nikolai Šarubin

    Overview about Georg Ots 6th Music Days on March 15–25, 1990.

  • The Sons of Torum
    The Sons of Torum

    Original title:Toorumi pojad

    1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.

  • Wonderful New Year's Night
    Wonderful New Year's Night

    Original title: Imeline nääriöö

    1984 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt, Hardi Volmer

    A story of two toys – a doll and a goose, who quit the shop at a Christmas night and begin their journey to them whom they are determined to – children.

  • Roosid lõunast
    Roosid lõunast

    1977 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Sulev Nõmmik

  • The Winds of Milky Way
    The Winds of Milky Way

    Original title: Linnutee tuuled

    1977 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    The sequel to „The Waterfowl People“. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970.

  • Muusikafilm Dominiiklaste Kloostris
    Muusikafilm Dominiiklaste Kloostris

    1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek

  • Sport
    Sport

    1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Andres Sööt

  • Vetelpäästenädal
    Vetelpäästenädal

    1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Andres Sööt

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