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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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Kangelastegu on vene keeles Podvig

Podvig stands for heroic deed in Russian

1990 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Director Peeter Tooming has documented the story of those who fought in and for Estonia. The film has been made during the time when people were hoping and waiting for the Soviet army to leave Estonia.

It is the year of 1990. Soviet army in Estonia celebrates the memory of their heroes on the anniversary of victory of the Great Patriotic War, telling the story of Aleksandr Matrossov for whom a museum has been dedicated in Tondi district, Tallinn. During the times of Perestroika when everyone was waiting for the Red Army to leave the country, Tori Heritage Conservation Society is getting ready to invite all Estonian men who once fought for their fatherland (bushwhackers, legionaries). Who are the real heroes who have fought for Estonia?
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Videoringvaade "Eestimaa", november 1989

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:
Cogito, ergo sum

Original title: Cogito, ergo sum

1989 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

Instead of joining the collective farm, Karl Peterson chose threats, penalties, deportation and prison as he wanted to live as a free man in a free country.

Karl Peterson, an old farmer, lives alone in his poor house in a neglected village of Uus-Kiislova, Põlva county, where his household once bloomed. Despite the war, deportations, collectivization, distrainment and other crimes agains humanity Karl never joined the collective farm. He was terrorized, abused and imprisoned but he remained true to himself. Karl tells the story of his difficult yet independent life and his silent yet consistent resistance to the Soviet order.
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Igavesti noored (Afganistanis sõdinud noormeestest)

1988 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mart Taevere
Väljak

1985 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
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Taastamisaastad

1984 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Sõjaveteranid kokkutulekul

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
Üleliiduline komsomoli tähesõit

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
Estonia-Filmist Tallinnfilmini

1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ants Looman

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