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Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov
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Revolution of Pigs

Original title: Revolution of Pigs

2004 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jaak Kilmi, René Reinumägi

An adventurous youth comedy directed by Jaak Kilmi and Rene Reinumägi takes place in an enviroment resembling Woodstock where a fifteen-year-old protagonist takes part in a revolt against the system, during which he identifies himself as a person and finds love.

In the summer of 1986 thousands of Estonian youngsters go to the gathering of Estonian Students' League in order to spend three days full of adventures, romance and partying. Yet, the pressure of the System is here - one has to follow ideological rules and keep one's mouth shut, notwithstanding the fact that the slogans are not valid any more and the graduates can be sent to the war in Afghanistan. Pressure creates anti-pressure and the struggle against the System explodes.
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The Devil in the Sauna

Original title: Kurat tuleb sauna

2004 | Short, Feature film | Director: Andres Maimik

Short film directed by Andres Maimik about a man and a women trying to save their collapsing relationship in the primeval atmosphere of a smoke sauna.

The folklorist husband cannot put up with the fact that his TV reporter wife does not love him as much as before. Being tortured by passion and accusations, the husband takes his wife to sauna in order to cleanse the spirit as well as ignite the body chemistry. The primeval atmosphere of the sauna has quite the opposite effect on the woman and the situation goes out of control.
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Somnambulance

Original title: Somnambuul

2003 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Sulev Keedus

The second feature film directed by Sulev Keedus is a phychological drama about human fear of tomorrow and about hopeless pursuits in order to keep one's spiritual balance in Estonia that has been recently occupied.

The Coastal Swedes have left their village in Estonia to flee from the war. Only Gottfried the lighthouse keeper has stayed there. His young daughter Eetla decides to stay with his father. Here she is now together with his father - facing her own stress and the Soviet soldiers in the village. Fear of unknown makes Eetla escape to her dreams. While standing on the edge of the sky, the earth and the sea, Eetla struggles between reality and dreams, life and death. Kasper, the doctor who hides himself in the lighthouse, tries to support the girl but even he ...
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Creators of the Legend

Original title: Legendi loojad

1963 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Evald Mägi

Amateur feature film produced in 1963, co-financed by the expatriate Estonians living in Canada and based on Eerik Heine’s original script. The film portrays conditions in Estonia during 1946-1947, fight of the ‘forest brothers’ with the occupying forces and worry towards the outburst of the next war, mixed with the hope to restore the independence of the Republic of Estonia.

In 1946-47, a group of resistance fighters led by captain Lembit Mõtus hide in a bunker of the ’forest brothers’, waiting for liberation of Estonia and struggle with local Soviet authorities. After a rape attempt in the woods, Lembit's pretty bride Linda moves to live with the ’forest brothers’. Local fellow villager working at railway informs them about the arriving train transporting money. They rob the train and decide to share the million Roublesa the with hundred neighbouring farms for paying compulsory taxes. Villager Endel, forest warden Juhan and his wife Maali get killed in the battle.
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The Young Eagles

Original title: Noored kotkad

1927 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Theodor Luts

The debut feature film by Theodor Luts who himself took part in the Estonian War of Independence. It is the first Estonian war film that depicts young men from all over Estonia fighting for the freedom of their fatherland. The silent film consists of numerous spectacular battle scenes.

This Estonian feature film is among the few films produced before 1940 that have been almost fully preserved. Three young men have become friends during the times of the Estonian War of Independence. While fighting for their fatherland, they experience both hazardous and romantic moments without losing their bravery, coolheadedness and sense of humour. The film is full of epic battle scenes, patriotism and pathos. „Young Eagles“ was digitally remastered and returned to the big screen in 2007 accompanied by the specially compiled background music.
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Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

Revolution of Pigs

The Devil in the Sauna

Somnambulance

Creators of the Legend

The Young Eagles