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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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The Player

Original title: Mängija

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Documentary about Jaan Ehlvest, legendary Estonian chess player, international grandmaster. The film investigates his self-searching and relationship with professional sports and his family.

The documentary about professional chess player Jaan Ehlvest and his daily life in a harsh world of professional sports where every result influences one's income and subsistence. The protagonist questions whether it is worth living a life where between championships he keeps running through different American cities and staying in hotels that look exactly the same. So it is not that much a sports documentary but rather a view into a development story of a talented and selfish man.
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The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Original title: Eestlased Kremlis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

The activities of the Estonian representatives at the Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...
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Wounds of Afghanistan

Original title: Afganistani armid

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Two veterans of Afghanistan War return to the military territories where they once fought. When they were twenty years old, they were sent to fight abroad where it was impossible to exit as a winner.

„Wounds of Afghanistan“ is a film about Estonian men currently in their forties whose lives were changed forever during the period of 1979-1989 when Estonians were forced to fight with the Soviet army in Afghanistan. When twenty-year old, they were sent by the Soviet authorities to the Afghan War where no-one had ever left as a winner. This was a a war for foreign country and unknown purposes. Every man tried to escape – few succeeded. The heroes of the film are the artist Aivar Simson – Simson from Seaküla - and Leino Juhkam. The first one lost his nerves in ...
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Enn Johannes

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Enn Johannes, an acknowledged metal artist.

Estonian metal artist Enn Johannes (b. 1936) designs and creates medals for the laureates of Kristjan Raud Art Prize and Konrad Mägi Award. The artist and art teacher in his best creative form is forced to give up his apartment in Tallinn and job at the Estonian Academy of Arts; he currently lives in a desert village on the island of Hiiumaa where the only residents are a few elderly people. The annual commemorative medals for state awards of culture and sports come from the same small village of Hiiumaa island where Enn Johannes leads his freelancer life together ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Life of expatriate Estonians in Canberra, Australia - past times and at the present day. The life story of a famous scientist Armin Öpik.

Views of Canberra, capital of Australia - House of Parliament, War Memorial of Australia. Interior space of the House of Parliament - former Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Robert Hawk, QUeen Elizabeth II, Senator Dorothy Tangney, member of Parliament Enid Lyons, Senator of Queensland Neville Thomas Bonner have been depicted on paintings. Chamber of the Parliament. Order of Australia, designed by Vambola Veinberg born in Tallinn, is exhibited in the House of Parliament. Reet Bergman, chairwoman of the Estonian Association in Canberra, talks about the local Estonian community. She recalls the ride with a hot-air balloon on the Nations Day ...
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High Jump

Original title: Hüpe

1985 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik
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40 aastat Tartu vabastamisest Saksa fasistlikust okupatsioonist

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Kuusalu kolhoosi 35.aastapäev

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Leo Ilves
Narva Saksa fasistlikust okupatsioonist vabastamise 40.aastapäeva pidustused

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski