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The Highway Crossing

Original title: Ristumine peateega

1999 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arko Okk

The debut feature film directed by Arko Okk is based on the play "The Highway Crossing aka the Fairytale of the Golden Fish". The film with a witty dialogue and unexpected chain of events tells the story of a miracle, money, and happiness. Both the visual and conceptual content of the film make allusions to Tarkovsky's "Stalker".

Osvald is a silk painter living in solitude. When Laura and Roland knock at Osvald's door one late night, he realizes that long-awaited happiness has finally reached him. Osvald offers Roland a billion dollars for Laura. The young couple becomes tempted by the money; but this is a temptation that they have never faced before. The practical compromises for fulfilling their wishes will turn out illusory for all the three.
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Autumn

Original title: Sügis

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The folksy comedy is the last one in the trilogy based on the works by Oskar Luts directed by Arvo Kruusement. Previous films of the trilogy are "Summer" (released in 1976) and "Spring" (released in 1969). In "Autumn" the main focus is on Jorh Adniel Kiir, the tailor of Paunvere, and his misadventures while getting married and buying a farm.

The young people that we know from the films "Spring" and "Summer" have grown up and become upstanding farmers and members of society in the post-war independent Estonia. Only tailor Kiir has not found a wife yet. Fortunately, two young women of appropriate age for marriage move to Paunvere and this will encourage Kiir's marriage plans. His marriage proposal and marriage will be adventurous, full of comedy, intrigues and happiness.
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Happy-Go-Lucky

Original title: Nipernaadi

1983 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the novel "Toomas Nipernaadi" (1928) by August Gailit, telling the story of a restless vagabond spending his summers with travelling on foot around the country.

While traveling around Estonia in summertime, Toomas Nipernaadi has no direction nor destination - he goes where the road takes him. People think their lives have been predestined and it should be taken as an inevitability until they meet Nipernaadi who likes to make up all kinds of stories and make people excited. He promises everyone happiness, love, and himself - but no one will ever get hold of him.
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Bumpy

Original title: Nukitsamees

1981 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Helle Murdmaa

The debut feature film directed by Helle Murdmaa is based on the children's story "Bumpy" by Oskar Luts. It is a musical fairy tale about the good and the evil, represented by sister and brother, Iti and Kusti, and by the family of forest ogres. The songs written by Olav Ehala for the film have become nationally known and beloved while being chosen also to the repertoire of Estonian song festivals.

One beautiful morning the toddler of the forest ogre family gets a babysitter, a little girl named Iti. She and her brother Kusti have been decoyed into a deep forest by a witch who wants to make them work in her ogre's household. Despite the extremely hard times she has with the toddler, Iti won't lose her patience and the little Bumpy starts to behave like a normal child. His name - Bumpy - comes from the tiny horns he has on his head. When the children find the opportunity to escape, Bumpy won't hear of letting Iti go. Iti ...
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Bonycrone and Captain Drum

Original title: Kunksmoor ja kapten Trumm

1978 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars

A story of the good witch Bonycrone and her friend Captain Drum.

A story of the good witch Bonycrone living on an isolated island and her friend, a former sailor Captain Drum; and their adventures on the island, on the sea and in town.
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Summer

Original title: Suvi

1976 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The second film of the trilogy (based on the novels "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn" by Oskar Luts) directed by Arvo Kruusement follows the life of the characters known from "Spring" with a humorous undertone.

Joosep Toots is always playing a practical joke on someone and Jorh Adniel Kiir keeps failing in everything he does. Both of them try to win Teele's heart; however, the moody young woman seems to be extremely determined. The beloved actors and actresses from "Kevade", the first part of the film trilogy, appear again in the roles while having grown up in the meantime. "Summer" depicts the life of the early 20th century in a humorous way while the lyrical undertone is provided by beautiful Estonian landscapes and the soundtrack familiar from "Spring".
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The Last Relic

Original title: Viimne reliikvia

1969 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Grigori Kromanov

The historical-romantic adventure film directed by Grigory Romanov is based on the characters and motifs from the story "Prince Gabriel or the Last Days of Pirita Monastery" by Eduard Bornhöhe and on the events of 1968 in Europe. The song lyrics by Paul-Eerik Rummo and touch of humour add depth to the film that has reached the cult status in Estonia.

It is the 16th century in Livonia. Hans von Risbieter, a young knight, inherits a chest with the remains of St Bridget - this is a relic desired by the convent. Risbieter agrees to give up the chest on one condition - if he can marry Agnes von Mönnikhusen, an angelic young niece of the abbess. Agnes, however, is in love with a freeman Gabriel who bravely stands for freedom and justice. The romantic adventures are intermingled with the explosive resentment of Estonians fighting the war of independence. The historical background of the film has been able to arouse interest ...
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The Spring

Original title: Kevade

1969 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The first independent feature film directed by Arvo Kruusement is based on the story "The Spring" by Oskar Luts, depicting events of a school year in an Estonian church parish school at the end of 19th century. This lyrical and jolly youth story full of hope has been selected as the best Estonian feature film of all times.

During their winter term, the schoolchildren of Paunvere church parish school - Arno, Teele, Toots, Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik - experience feelings that they will always remember later in their lives: true friendship, first love, self-discovery and finding one's purpose in life. The story is full of colourful events, vivid characters, elaborate jokes and subtle emotions, telling about the development of young people during the most sensitive years of their lives.
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