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Death Dance

Original title: Surmatants

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tõnu Virve

The first full-length feature film directed by Tõnu Virve is a collection of fragments inspired by the painting "Danse Macabre" ("Dance of Death") by Lübeck painter Bernt Notke, telling the speculated version of the painting's journey to Tallinn.

The historical costume drama where the fragments of the lives of Bernt Notke, one of the most influential Late Gothic painter with adventurous history from Lübeck, and carpenter Michel Sittow are brought together by the story of the panel painting "Danse Macabre" by Notke and the way the painting reached Tallinn, Estonia.
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The Sunny Kids

Original title: Noorelt õpitud

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The symbolistic drama directed by Jüri Sillart is telling the story about the spring of young graduates in a small town of Estonia at the end of Stalinist era. The atmosphere of terror is reigning over the place while paralyzing the pursuits of freedom, love and dignity.
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Kalju Lepik Reads Poetry in the Island of Väddö in 1988

Title in Estonian: Kalju Lepik loeb luulet Väddö saarel 1988

1988 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Poet Kalju Lepik reads his poetry in a summer cottage in the island of Väddö, Havsskogen on July 2, 1988.

Poet Kalju Lepik reads his poetry in a summer cottage in the island of Väddo, Havsskogen on July 2, 1988. While browsing through a thick collection of poetry, Lepik recites a selection of poems with a solemn and tragic tone. The main themes in these poems are the destiny of an Estonian man, being without a homeland, the simultaneous fugacity and eternity of life.
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High Jump

Original title: Hüpe

1985 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik
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Kahe kodu ballaad I seeria

1985 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Ago-Endrik Kerge
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Kahe kodu ballaad II seeria

1985 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Ago-Endrik Kerge
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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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Kuuvikerkaar

1982 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks
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Antennid jääs

1977 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat
P.Keres in memoriam

1975 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov

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