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  • Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1
    Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1

    Original title: Kosmos 68 - Legendid vol 1

    2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

    Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space.

  • Old Clown
    Old Clown

    Original title: Vana kloun

    2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

    Documentary film tells a story of legendary Soviet time clown Sergey Fatkin. Due to popularity he was allowed to pass iron curtain and visit 35 countries in times when many Soviets didn’t see any foreign country ever. At Paris nightclub Olympia Fatkin performed together with Jaques Brel. Later on Sergei Fatkin made a fatal mistake smuggling Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago into the country. Officially banned book was hand copied and passed around. KGB soon traced down Sergei Fatkin and the legendary clown was arrested, liberated from his titles, awards and private possessions. Ironically – the man who had passed around a book about Soviet prisons was imprisoned for years. Nowadays Sergei Fatkin, free again, is still working modestly as a clown, performing at kindergartens mostly.

  • Father, Son and Holy Theatre
    Father, Son and Holy Theatre

    Original title: Isa, Poeg ja Teatri Vaim

    2009 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marko Raat

    Alar Sudak alias Elaan is an actor who takes the whole stage and who won't leave the place - theatrality and the spirit of theatre complete the dramatic world of the life's artist.

  • Tracks on snow
    Tracks on snow

    Original title: Jäljed lumel

    1978 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leida Laius

    Documentary directed by Leida Laius about Ants Jõgi, theatrical actor, Merited Artist of the Soviet Union, a grand master of small roles.

  • V.Panso in memoriam
    V.Panso in memoriam

    1978 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Harri Martinson

  • Magnet? Magic?
    Magnet? Magic?

    Title in Estonian: Magnet? Maagia?

    1977 | Documentary | Director: Mikk Mikiver, Ülo Tambek

    Portrait documentary directed by Mikk Mikiver and Ülo Tambek about actor Kaarel Karm.

  • Einari Koppel in the prism of roles
    Einari Koppel in the prism of roles

    Title in Estonian: Einari Koppel rollideprismas

    1976 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Harry Karro

    The greatest roles of actor Einari Koppel in 1970s.

  • Teatri vang -Voldemar Panso
    Teatri vang -Voldemar Panso

    1975 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Virve Aruoja

  • Druus ja Fatkin
    Druus ja Fatkin

    1971 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Sulev Nõmmik

  • Säärane Ird ehk sada aastat "Vanemuise" teatrit

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