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Original title: Tühirand

2006 | Feature film, Short | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

Debut film of director Veiko Õunpuu, based on the short story of the same title by Mati Unt.

A young intellectual man Mati manages to get into a situation where he has to spend a weekend together with her wife and her lover. They all drive to the lover's summer cottage. Mati has made up his mind to win back his wife, no matter the reason – jealousy or pride. What is love? Who is able to have faith in it? What can be believed in after all? A young man is searching for answers, with the help of gallons of vodka, hysteria, Eastern martial arts and an incredibly pretty art student Marina.
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A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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The Devil in the Sauna

Original title: Kurat tuleb sauna

2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Maimik

Short film directed by Andres Maimik about a man and a women trying to save their collapsing relationship in the primeval atmosphere of a smoke sauna.

The folklorist husband cannot put up with the fact that his TV reporter wife does not love him as much as before. Being tortured by passion and accusations, the husband takes his wife to sauna in order to cleanse the spirit as well as ignite the body chemistry. The primeval atmosphere of the sauna has quite the opposite effect on the woman and the situation goes out of control.
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Intimate Town

Original title: Intiimne linn

2003 | Documentary | Director: Kristiina Davidjants

Both reality and fiction of Dovlatov's - a famous Russian writer - world opens up In conversations held with the prototypes of Dovlatov's book describing the period of his life in Tallinn in 1970s.

Russian legendary writer Sergey Dovlatov's book "The Compromise" was published at the time of the author's emigration in USA and describes the period that Dovlatov himself has called "Interior emigration" - that is the years that he spent in Tallinn, Estonia as a journalist (1972-1976). The documentary interviews the prototypes of the book, including Dovlatov's former colleagues and friends who comment on the literary work. They share background information that helps to interpret both Dovlatov's destiny as well as the essence of the Soviet era.
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A Momentous Contribution

Title in Estonian: Kaalukas panus

1990 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee. Unprecedented level of senseless industrialisation was achieved under his leadership in 10 years, hundreds of thousands of people were brought here as labor power. A fight against estonian language was started in several fields of activity. Any kind of thinking expect the "right" one was sufficient reason to arrest its carrier...
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Flirt

1990 | Students film, Short | Director: Aare Tilk
Stolen Meeting

Original title: Varastatud kohtumine

1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius

The psychological drama directed by Leida Laius keeps expanding upon a woman's destiny.

Valentina gets out of prison, goes back to Estonia and starts looking for her son Jüri whom she has given up for adoption years ago. She firmly believes that together with her son life would completely change. Valentina has grown up in an orphanage and knows nothing about her parents. She blames the fact for the twists and turns of her life and wants better for her son whom she loves from the bottom of her heart. When Valentina finally finds her son in Tartu where he lives in a civilized well-off Estonian family, she will face an unexpected issue.
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The Sounds of Kaleva

Original title: Kaleva hääled

1986 | Documentary | Director: Lennart Meri

Three-act documentary essay directed by Lennart Meri about memory and the historical cultural connections between the Finno-Ugric peoples.

The documentary is divided into three parts: the first part has been dedicated to ancient bearers of memory such as Karelian rock paintings, poetry of Kalevala, the Khanti bear funeral ceremony. Taking a tour in the past has been interwoven with mythical ancient history, yet drawing parallels with today's society. In the second part Lennart Meri tells about Finnish folklore collector Elias Lönnrot's trip to Estonia and his meetings with Estonian intellectuals in 1844. Interest towards Estonian language and friendship with Faehlmann hints at mutual influence in their work while compiling "Kalevala" and "Kalevipoeg". In the third part, the filmmakers ...
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Dr Seppo

Original title: Doktor Seppo

1981 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Ruus

Documentary about dr Seppo, his treatment techniques and methods.

Dr Arnold Seppo talks about the innovative treatment methods and equipment he has invented himself, he also brings examples of healed patients. Dr Seppo is a traumatologist and inventor. His ideas are supported or opposed by medical scientists all over the Soviet Union – V. Kalnberzs, H. Jansons, B. Äniline, G. Ilizarov, U.Sibul. By 1981, the Laboratory and Clinic of Scientific Research of Metalosteosynthesis has been named after its founder A. Seppo. Head of the clinic Uku Truupõld, and head of the patent department Ljudmilla Gans continue the work of Dr Seppo.
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Acquaintances 5 (Trip to London)

Original title: Tuttavad 5 (Londoni reis)

1980 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu's trip to London in July 1974, Estonian Embassy in London. Acquaintances of the Nõu family.

Jaak Kiviloog defends his Doctoral thesis in Uppsala in March 1974. Enn Nõu's trip to London from June 5 to June 8. Sightseeings: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Palace, Big Ben - the clock tower of the British Parliament building, Westminster Abbey or the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster, Piccadilly Circus, Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, River Thames and its bridges. Red double decker buses can be seen in the city, also taxis, cars, peaceful equestrian police and hurrying city residents. Monuments. Inner and outer views of the Estonian embassy in London. ...
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