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Wonderworker's Debt

Original title: Imetegija võlg

1987 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hans Roosipuu, Enn Säde

Documentary about professional sports and the efforts by bicyclist Riho Suun.

Documentary about professional sports is following the efforts and failures of bicycle champion Riho Suun. The Estonian sportsman faces difficult times with competing and keeping his position in the team of Soviet Union.
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Jaht

1985 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Veiko Paalma
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From winter to winter

Original title: Lumest lumeni

1984 | Documentary | Director: Hans Roosipuu

Portrait documentary about Tõnu Pääsuke, a biathlon coach in the Soviet Estonia, and his athletes Kaija Parve and Even Tudeberg.

Tõnu Pääsuke is a biathlon coach in Soviet Estonia training his talented athletes Kaija Parve and Even Tudeberg for the upcoming winter olympic games in Sarajevo, 1984. The documentary shows the biathlon athletes when training and and taking part in competitions as well as in their summer camp to get physically prepared for the big competition - they make hay, heaving bags of fertilizer, running on the cross-country path and riding with rollerskates.
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Heroes

Title in Estonian: Heerosed

1980 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary about the olympic medalists Aavo Pikkuus, Ivar Stukolkin, Jaak Uudmäe and Viljar Loor at the Summer Olypic Games in Moscow 1980.

Sports documentary about the olympic medalists Aavo Pikkuus, Ivar Stukolkin, Jaak Uudmäe and Viljar Loor observes the athletes' achievements at the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow 1980 and before that during the test competitions. The film shows the magic and pain of professional sports.
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With Bare Hands

Original title: Paljakäsi

1980 | Documentary | Director: Mihkel Ratas

The first steps of the ancient Eastern martial art - karate - in Estonia.

Artist Rein Tammik is painting a portrait of wrestler Georg Lurich commissioned by a karate club. There is a training going on in Rataskaevu Street while at the same time basement rooms are being dug for the future leisure room. Priit Kelder, teacher of Eastern martial arts, talk about Lurich as a personality whom he considers to be the founder of the man-to-man fight in Estonia. Karate competition "Tallinn Cup" starts a new tradition in the Soviet Union, both young and professional experienced athletes take part in it. The cup stays in Estonia.
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Downwind

Title in Estonian: Pärituult

1976 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary directed by Andres Sööt about yachtsmen, yachts and sailing on Tallinn Bay.

Documentary about yachtsmen, yachts and sailing on Tallinn Bay. The sailing regatta of 22nd Summer Olympic Games (Moscow) is held on Tallinn Bay in 1980.
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Värvid tuules

1974 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks
Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

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