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Sõpradel külas

1986 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Lembit Heinmaa
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Estonians. That's the Way it Was.

Original title: Eestlased. Nii see oli

1984 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Film for the children of expatriate Estonians in Canada introduces the history of the Republic of Estonia, events of WW2 and the destiny of refugees.

Lesson of the expatriate Estonian pupils in Canada, singing class. Film's director Arved Viirlaid with his wife explains the reasons of making the film. Chronicle frames: Tallinn before World War I, Nicholas II of Russia, battle scenes from World War I. Revolution of 1917 in St. Petersburg, Kerenski, Lenin, manifesto of declaration of the Republic of Estonia; German forces in 1918, the Red Army, Danish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, armoured trains and armoured vehicles; the original document of the Treaty of Tartu. Chronicle scenes about the restructuring of the Republic of Estonia after the War of Independence: ...
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Merepäevad

1984 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Tiina Pork
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Interview with Helmut Maandi on May 16, 1983

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu Helmut Maandiga 16.05.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with politician Helmut Maandi in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983.

Enn Nõu interviews Helmut Maandi, the State Secretary during the constitutional government formed by Otto Tief in 1944, in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983. They discuss important subjects: the activity of the National Committee of the Republic of Estonia in 1944, arrestments of the security police, the members of the committee going underground, forming the government under the guidance of Otto Tief in September 1944 and the further destiny of the members of the goverment, activities of the politicians who fleed to the West. Helmut Maandi reads out the text from the leaflets of the National ...
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Intervjuu peaministriga presidendi ülesannetes Tõnis Kindiga 28.08.1983

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu peaministriga presidendi ülesannetes Tõnis Kindiga 28.08.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu interviews Tõnis Kint, Prime MInister performing the duties of the President, in Uppsala.

Tõnis Kint was the Prime Minister performing the duties of the President in 1970-1990. He is talking about his education: as a boy from the countryside, he was lucky to get to study at Tartu Secondary Science School (Realschule), continued his studies in Riga but was soon mobilized into the Russian army. The future studies were interrupted due to the wars. Kint was in Moscow in the historical year of 1917 during the revolutions, in Krasnoye Selo and Petrograd defending the Winter Palace. He made it to Estonia in December 1917. Manifesto of the Peoples of Estonia was proclaimed in ...
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Sõpruslinnas Veneetsias

1982 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Raimi Tonts
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Jaapani sügis

1980 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Lembit Heinmaa
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Sõpruspuu

1980 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming
Olümpiakursil

1978 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Heiki Roots
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Ülemeremaal I-II-III

1978 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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