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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed

Original title: Metsavennad voodi ees

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.

In Estonian forests, there are thousands of graves of bushwhackers known only from legends. 77-year-old Aino Lepp from Pärnu county, Estonia, is disappointed in the way the state relates to the subject. She has been able to find and rebury about a few dozens of bushwhackers. Every single one of them finds a special place in the old woman's heart. Despite her scarce income, Aino has to drive around estonia in order to take care of the bushwhackers' graves that she has relocated. The more bushwhackers Aino reburies, the more difficult it will become for her since she gets older. ...
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A Game to Vanya

Original title: Geim Vanjale

1991 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Elo Tust

Portrait documentary about volleyball coach Ivan Dratshov who can be undoubtedly called the Father of Estonian volleyball.

Russian soldier Ivan Dratshov came to Estonia on a military ship during the World War Two and stayed to live here. He turned out to be a important person in the development of Estonian sports. Dratshov founded Estonian school of volleyball and led the male volleball team to the victory - they became the champions of the Soviet Union in 1968. The documentary shows archival materials about the history of Estonian male and female volleyball sports. Former players share their memories about Ivan Dratshov (1921-1989), his life's work and complicated destiny.
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In Kurgja Farm Museum in Türi on June 23, 1990

Title in Estonian: Kurgja talumuuseumis, Türil 23.06.1990

1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

On the road to Lahemaa visits are paid to C. R. Jakobson Farm Museum in Kurgja, cemetery of Kurgja farm, driving through Türi on June 23, 1990.

On the road to Lahemaa visits are paid to C. R. Jakobson Farm Museum in Kurgja, cemetery of Kurgja farm, driving through Türi on June 23, 1990.
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Why do the stars fall

Original title: Miks kukuvad tähed

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary on problematic issues directed by Märt Müür whose film tells a story about diligent and successful heads of collective farm and how the Soviet system has unjustly harassed them, found them guilty and punished them.

The sincere documentary about the heads of collective farms in Soviet Estonia who have worked hard without being afraid of risk and responsibility. However, due to the pressure by the Communist Party, its authorities envy and out-dated legislation they had to pay for it with their positions, health and often with their lives. Vello Tire, head of Viiratsi pig farm, died at the age of 51; Tomas Sooaluste, the head of Gagarin Sovkhoz Tech School, died at the age of 43; Georg Suurmets, the head of Energia collective farm, became disabled. The author of the documentary, Märt Müür, discusses the ...
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Eesti olümpialasi

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peep Puks
C.R.Jakobsoni Talumuuseum

1978 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Harri Martinson
O.Lutsu 90 sünniaastapäev

1977 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek
Medieval Tallinn

Original title: Keskaegne Tallinn

1969 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Parvel

Documentary of popular science for introducing the daily life and buildings of medieval Tallinn, commissioned by the MInistry of Education of Estonian SSR.

Art historian Villem Raam gives a compact overview about the development of ancient Estonians' settlement in the area of present location of Tallinn. Introduction of the period when the wooden stronghold initially built to protect the harbour was transferred into a powerful stone fortress that was surrounded by the district of craftsmen and merchants. More detailed descriptions of some of the most influential and magnificent buildings in the town.
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The white land of Enderby

Original title: Enderby valge maa

1969 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt, Mati Kask

Documentary by Andres Sööt and Mati Kask portrays Antarctic expeditions and its polar stations in 1968-1969.

When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need ...
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