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Cabbage Head

Original title: Kapsapea

1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman.

It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia. Against a backround of chasing and hunting two young people find their love.
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Deserters

Title in Estonian: Väekargajad

1993 | Feature film, Short | Director: Talvo Pabut

Film about the choices made in the name of continuation of life during the Great Northern War in Estonia plundered by plague.

Estonian villages have become almost deserted as a result of plague and the Great Northern War. However, one woman has survived in a farm. Two starving deserters arrive to her farm – a Swede from the King Carl's army and an Estonian from the Imperial Russian army. There is not enough food for two men in the house so one has to leave, but which one? The woman has to make the decision.
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Eesti partii

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hans Roosipuu
Estonian Defence

Original title: Eesti kaitse

1993 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the history of national defence in pre-war Estonia and the management of national defence after Estonia regained independence.

In 1993, Estonian National Defence celebrates its 75th birthday. Soviet military forces have not left yet when the restoration of national defence has been founded. Various state and voluntary structures are looking for the right anwers in forming defence policy. The director is intrigued by the national level of protection and the politicians' rights to decide for or instead of the nation how to protect the state (and nation). These problems have always been vital for Estonia. The prequel of the documentary introduces a long excursion to history - from the War of Independence to the year of 1940, while ...
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In Paradisum

1993 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious Estonian serial killer, Andreas. Although her story is bizarre, it touches familiar themes that run throughout modern life: the desire to be loved and the fear of being alone. Pille's tale unfolds over cinema vérité images of life in several Estonian prisons. At times the images reflect in a literary way the events of the narration, yet they are representations and impressions, rather than traditional documentary style footage of the people involved. This opens the story to a ...
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Jaan Tõnisson 1868…

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks
Jõulukuuskede istutamine

1993 | Newsreels, Newsreels beyond 1992 | Director: Arvo Vilu
Kuressaare ja Tallinn

1993 | Newsreels, Newsreels beyond 1992 | Director: Toivo Kusmin
Laste pidu Vabaõhumuuseumis

1993 | Newsreels, Newsreels beyond 1992 | Director: Peeter Tooming
Masterpiece

Original title: Meistritükk

1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Rand

This film which includes both human and puppet characters speaks of hidden forces within us, both good and evil, and of the balance between them.

A puppet game between an Angel and a Devil grows over two oppositing power-the Masters and the Miller - into a battle which proves to be a test of strength between the two puppets. A Girl one of the film`s most essential though overshadowed characters, observes the entire affair. This film which includes both human and puppet characters speaks of hidden forces within us, both good and evil, and of the balance between them.
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