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Oath of Life

Title in Estonian: Eluvanne

1978 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary directed by Peep Puks about Anton Hansen Tammsaare, an Estonian literary classic.

Poetic portrait film about Estonian writer Anton Hansen Tammsaare. Director Peep Puks is telling the writer's story. The voiceover introduces the writer's biography and gives quotes from his literary works, illustrated by the rich and metaphorical visual language. Archival materials and photographs have been used in the documentary.
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The Winds of Milky Way

Original title: Linnutee tuuled

1977 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

The sequel to „The Waterfowl People“. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970.

Documentary of cultural anthropology about the ethnography and ethnogenesis of the Finno-Ugric peoples is a sequel to the documentary "The Waterfowl People" (1970) directed by Lennart Meri. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970. The film ...
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Colourful Dreams

Original title: Värvilised unenäod

1974 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Virve Aruoja, Jaan Tooming

The poetic film directed by Virve Aruoja and Jaan Tooming depicts the fantasies and the world of play of a little girl and the beauty of nature.

Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole countryside - animals, flowers, the wind and stones. Kati conjures up the sun and floats above the fields of flowers and the whole universe. There is no borderline between reality and the magic world. Is it possible to play the same game also at her home in the city?
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Family 38

Title in Estonian: Perekond 38

1974 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The married couple Enn and Helga Nõu's activities with their family in summer 1974. Trip to Öland.

The Nõu family goes on a trip to Öland in summer 1974. Before visiting the island the family goes to the animal park and museum exhibiting wooden sculptures and carvings. Cars drive to the ferry deck. Arriving the harbour. Coastal landscape with scarce vegetation, pebbles and rocks. The family drives around on the island by their car. The Långe Erik lighthouse - view from the lighthouse to the surroundings. The family walks around on beaches with their friends and acquaintances, they go swimming and have lunch between the sand dunes, children are playing with the sand, sunset. One of the ...
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Tormi poeg

1971 | Documentary | Director: Reet Kasesalu
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Maa, maja, loom

1969 | Documentary | Director: Ants Kivirähk
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Sõjapäevade laulud

1969 | Musical film | Director: Evald Hermaküla
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Uksed

1969 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Madis Ojamaa
Letters from the Island of the Insane

Original title: Kirjad Sõgedate külast

1966 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Müür

The epistolary drama directed by Jüri Müür is based on the collection of short stories "Letters from the Island of the Insane" by Juhan Smuul and tells about the life and human relationships in a fishermen's village.

Martin Puri is an elderly fisherman who is told to retire because of his old age by their chief fisherman August on a beautiful fishing day. Every now and then, Martin's fellow fishermen have saved him from hard work; however, every generation of the fishing people of the village has always known that they cannot be forced to be separated from the sea. At sea, one has to possess more than physical strength. When a group of people has to be saved from a boat in an autumn storm, Martin understands that one cannot act against the sea but together ...
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Saaremaa

1956 | Documentary | Director: Reet Kasesalu