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Life in an Old Town

Original title: Elu vanas linnas

1985 | Documentary | Director: Heini Drui

Documentary about the Old Town of Tallinn - a valuable and original living environment.

The documentary focuses on the initiative to value the environment of the Old Town of Tallinn while critisizing the Soviet policies of urban planning and architecture. The film introduces the unique homes that the Old Town residents have created out of the boredom of the similar-looking standard apartments. Juhan Sõmera, Andres Ottenson, Endel Puusaag and Taivo Niitvägi tell about their Old Town homes.
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Maestro

1985 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Nikolai Šarubin

Portrait documentary by Nikolai Sharubin about composer and conductor Gustav Ernesaks during the 20th Song Festival.

The filmmakers follow composer and conductor Gustav Ernesaks before and during the final concert of 20th Song Festival. Ernesaks and his wife prepare for attending the concert. The composer's choral work can be heard as the soundtrack.
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Tartu

1983 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Heini Drui
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Vigursõit vanalinnas

1983 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Tiina Mägi
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Palee

1982 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Hannes Lintrop
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Vocation

Title in Estonian: Kutsumus

1980 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Veljo Käsper

Portrait documentary about Jaan Vihm, a cinema technician in a rural area in Puka, Valga district, Estonia.

Cinema technician Jaan Vihm is an honoured man in Puka, Estonia. He is a merited professional in the field of culture of Estonian SSR, owner of the Order of Red Banner of Labour and a people's deputy. Jaan has showed films to the local people for 28 years and is ready to continue to do that as long as possible.
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Wedding photos

Title in Estonian: Pulmapildid

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Andres Sööt

Filmmaker Andres Sööt observes new wedding traditions in the Soviet Estonia in 1970s.

Filmmakers observe two wedding parties that combine all kinds of things: folk dances and the 1970s pop music, disco, Soviet registering of marriage, compulsory vodka drinking and the efforts of the master of the ceremony to preserve old wedding traditions. The formal way of entertainment of the new generation's master of ceremony takes his job seriously – and the organization of a wedding party becomes the portrait of an era with the touch of absurd. The portrait makes it difficult to recognize former Estonians from the wedding pictures, taken half a century ago.
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Neli sammu

1978 | Other categories, Commissioned, Educational | Director: Rein Maran
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Tallinn, mu Tallinn

1978 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Edvard Oja
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Kaubalaev Jaan Anvelt

1977 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Julia Guteva

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