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Porcelain Madness

Original title: Nõudehullud

2022 | Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness. In one and a half years, tens of thousands of people have been infected with a disease that makes them tirelessly hunt for nostalgic cups and dishes, soviet-era glassware and antique tureens. At the centre of documentary is desirable tableware that triggers the lust for hunt in otherwise normal, educated people, taking their money and sleep. Through carefully selected, colourful characters, we delve deep into the phenomenon. Porcelain aficionados range from the mortally ill Helena, who proclaims herself “mad for porcelain until death ...
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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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Arheoloogilised kaevamised Olustveres, Maidlas ja Jõelähtmes

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Linn ja maa

1973 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
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Under the Same Roof

Original title: Ühe katuse all

1962 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Igor Jeltsov

The feature film directed Igor Yeltsov is based on the story "In the Same House" by Hans Leberecht. It is a personal drama about the political views developed during the Stalinist era.

Mari Põder has successfully led a collective farm in 1950s and fulfilled all tasks given from the authorities. Nonetheless, things in the collective farm become progressively worse. The Committee of the Communist Party sends its representative Peeter Arro who will learn that the manager Mari acts as a tyrant for the local people. She has to resign during the elections of the new manager. Being without authority has a damaging effect on her so she starts to regain her position with the help of her old tricks.
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Mahtras

1957-1964 | Amateur films | Director:
Nõukogude Eesti

1948 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin
Nõukogude Eesti

1948 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
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