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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Mausoleum

Original title: Mausoleum

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

Grotesque and tragicomical story about the Soviet pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who eviscerated Lenin's dead body in 1924 and performed its initial enbalming. Since then, Abrikosov's and his assistant Sasha's lives have been related to taking care of Lenin's body. It is the year 1936, the era of Stalin's night-time repressions. No one can sleep, there are arrestments and executions. No one is protected from the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), especially the élite of USSR. And then, right before the 1st of May, a fly gets into the Lenin's sarcophagus. Before the visit of the great leader Stalin, Abrikosov ...
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Baskin

Original title: Baskin

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Portrait documentary about actor and theatre director Eino Baskin.

A portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audiences (especially women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by some and cursed by others, and imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Baskin has built two theatres from the scratch. After the second stroke he was in a coma for 47 days but returned. A rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin’s life.
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Legacy

Original title: Pärand

2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

Legacy is a documentary about the „closed city“ of Sillamäe – a city that Stalin founded for the needs of the first atomic bomb built in the Soviet Union. The local Estonian population was almost entirely relocated and the neoclassical resort town was virtually rebuilt for the Soviet elite working in the uranium enriching factory. The inhertance that period left is a complex one – including a radioactive tailing pond. The Soviet hegemony lingers on in Sillamäe, where the tiny Estonian population still strives to retain their culture. The documentary investigates the multifaceted relationship between state and – how did the closed ...
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Lotman's World

Original title: Lotmani maailm

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Agne Nelk

Portrait documentary with humorous touch tells about Juri Lotman, a world famous semiotician. The film is based on archival materials.

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. ...
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Memories Denied

Original title: Tõrjutud mäletused

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Imbi Paju
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Chief Architects

Original title: Peaarhitektid

1999 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about Soviet architecture and buildings in Tallinn, equipped with the commentaries by former top architects.

The era under discussion tends to be forgotten. We are witnessing how Tallinn is losing its appearance of Soviet era. We can be grateful to the fact that the worst architectural projects were never completed. Three former decision makers in architecture - Mart Port, Dmitri Bruns and Voldemar Herkel - discuss the construction in Tallinn according to their personal experience of that time. The talk is led by architect Ike Volkov. The gaze of director Andres Sööt focuses on the aesthetics of Soviet ugliness, concrete grey new apartment building blocks, deserted constructional gaps in urban environment and on the capacity ...
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Georgica

Original title: Georgica

1998 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Sulev Keedus

The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.

Story about the silent Boy who is sent for medical treatment to Jakub, a former colonial missionary living on an island that is also a military training area. Jakub is the only civilian there. He has to make observations during the bombing at night and phone the headquarters about the results. The observation spot is located in the tower of a church in ruins where Jakub makes silage. The missionary - an old horse - tramples silage in the church tower. There are beehives inside of the church. Jakub plays the organ, singing chorals and the Boy pumps the organ ...
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Surma tee

1994 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin
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So long, Dracula!

Title in Estonian: Isake Dracula Eesti variant

1993 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

Anatomy of totalitarism. Sarcastic retrospect to the darkest era in Estonian history during 20th century.

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his era when poets wrote him odes and poems but the bushwhackers sang: " ... and our aim is to kill Stalin". From the tribunes, Stalin was addressed as "the great friend of Estonian nation", nevertheless, for the majority of Estonian Stalin's name embodied the violence and lies that hit Estonia. This influenced all areas of life and no-one was left untouched by the terror. The documentary breakrs the myth about the joint resistance of Estonian nation to the foreign power and gives the warning that there is the possibility that similar things could happen again.
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