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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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Anchor

Original title: Ankur

1991 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

Symbolistic drama by Peeter Simm about a marriage in crisis. The film has been produced in collaboration with Finnish filmmakers.

Iris has to deal with the majority of daily issues in her marriage. When her husband Sami shows interest towards Iris's female friend Annabel, Iris will lose her nerve. Where is the solution – to hang oneself with the rope attached to an anchor?
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Estonian Contemporary Art Siim-Tanel Annus

Title in Estnian: Eesti nüüdiskunst: Siim-Tanel Annus

1991 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

Performance by Siim-Tanel Annus that forwards its message through text, images and music.

Siim-Tanel Annus was one of the main performance artists in Estonia in 1980-1993. In the film, the artist says that his attempt is to express something that cannot be forwarded through words or paper. The film full of images and associations aims at touching the borders between life and death. Keywords of this kind of creative activity are: blindfolded human being, burden, fire and rituals related to fire. The refined geometrical abstract figures in the early printed works by SIim-Tanel Annus express the endeavour to exit the daily routine towards the sky and the light. "Nine Mantras", a musical piece ...
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The Lost Road

Original title: See kadunud tee

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaan Kolberg

The symbolistic-allegorical drama directed by Jaan Kolberg is based on the novel "The Good Harbour" by August Mälk (published in 1942) and other works of the same writer. The events of the film have been adjusted to the contemporary times.

Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to know the daily life in the fisherman's village, falls in love for the first time, and realizes the complexity of the relationships between those of older generation. While leaving for a stormy sea of life from the village he has still some hope in order to come back to his love and his home port.
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A Man Who Never Was

Original title: Inimene, keda polnud

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The period film directed by Peeter Simm is dedicated to those working at radio stations in Estonia. Events from the lives of Imbi Valgemäe, Mari Möldre and Ruut Tarmo are brought to the viewer. Based on the oral and written memoirs of radio and theatre people.

Imbi Tamm has grown up together with the sounds and voices of radio broadcasting. She becomes an adult during the 1940s - the cataclysmic years in Estonian history. When she starts her career as a radio voice with high hopes and optimism in Stalinist Estonia, she will collide with the reality of the era where people's fate, sufferings and happiness depend on current ideology and government. The film is dedicated to the memory of the radio voices that have been accompanied the lives of many generations.
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Idatuuletorm

1989 | Documentary | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden
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Hermaküla

1988 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Pihlak

Unique documentary portrait about actor and stage director Evald Hermaküla.

The world of actor and stage director Evald Hermaküla (1941-2000). Contemplative documentary portrait with the poems by Hendrik Adamson and Henrik Visnapuu and music by Alo Mattiisen. Evald Hermaküla reads the poetry.
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Üks pilk Betti Alverile

1988 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Rahutaevas

1987 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus
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In One Hundred Years in May

Original title: Saja aasta pärast mais

1986 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The historical-psychological drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk tells about the four last days of Viktor Kingissepp, a professional revolutionary and a communist, in May 1922.

Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis is widely spread, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?
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