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Peace Street

Original title: Rahu tänav

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Roman Baskin

The first full-length feature film directed by Roman Baskin is an allegorical drama about power, compromises and conformation. The film was one of the six best European debut feature films in 1992.

On Christmas Eve, the residents of Peace Street discover that there are military guards in front of their houses. Soon they have to start showing their passports when entering their homes. The residents are told by the authorities that in order to keep the peace they have to be ready to co-operate. It is an order and people stick to it. It is heard that the foreign troops will leave when the snow will be gone - so it won't be long until the everyday life will be normal again. When spring arrives, not only the snow disappears but also ...
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Rist

1991 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Aaspõllu
The Sunny Kids

Original title: Noorelt õpitud

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The symbolistic drama directed by Jüri Sillart is telling the story about the spring of young graduates in a small town of Estonia at the end of Stalinist era. The atmosphere of terror is reigning over the place while paralyzing the pursuits of freedom, love and dignity.
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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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Everyone gets his own

Original title: Igaühele oma

1990 | Feature film, Short | Director: Hardi Volmer

Grotesque allegorical film directed by Hardi Volmer that tells about a little man, his fears and stagnation in the world.

Grotesque allegory about a little man who is afraid of everything new and unknown. This prevents him to live his life fully. Despite having dreams and yearning for being just like other people, the man cannot break through the wall of manic doubts and suspicion surrounding him. While being unable to adjust to the world outside, the man creates his own, illusory world.
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For Crazies Only

Original title: Ainult hulludele ehk halastajaõde

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

Feature film by Arvo Iho tells the story of a nurse working at the department of traumatology. She helps a young man who has lost self-confidence and emotional balance and needs help in order to rediscover his virility. The nurse's behaviour will be disapproved by other people.

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful Russian nurse taking care of him. In order to restore the young man's vitality, self-confidence and virility, the nurse spends a night full of tenderness and love with him. Rita's colleagues start teasing her. Yet, there is someone who considers Rita to be the source for the evil and takes action. Rita accepts her fate but the avenger becomes more brutal every time.
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Regina

Based on the novel "An Option" by Aimée Beekman

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the novel "An Option" by Aimée Beekman, telling about parents' responsibility for their offspring.

Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose husband tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inherits a house in a little town, an opportunity to change her life arises and she moves away from the capital city. She won't manage there alone - and the only available man around is drunkard Ants, yet with excellent skills in the household. Since the man is single, Regina decides that it is reasonable to marry him. However, she wants to get children with other men, those who are healthy and not drinking. ...
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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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Awakening

Original title: Äratus

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The debut film by director Jüri Sillart depicts an Estonian village on the fatal day of March 25, 1949, when ten thousands of people were deported to Siberia.

It is the night of March 25, 1949. The full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals while using violence. But people are not animals. They have souls and emotions which get hurt. Deporters cannot read from their lists what kind of powers will be disentangled that night. Dignity and Disobedience won't be there. The constructors of a new human being, disguised into a Man and a Woman, cannot expect this. Neither will ...
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