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  • Englas. Old Warrior
    Englas. Old Warrior

    Original title: Englas. Vana sõdur

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm

    This is the story of the two times wrestling World Champion August Englas.

  • 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.

  • Timeless
    Timeless

    Original title: Aegumatu

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

    According to director Andres Sööt the film has not been made for those who know nothing or don't want to know about the deportation that took place in June 1941. The film has been dedicated to those who can never again talk about this event, those who passed away because of the unjustness.

  • Voldemar Väli
    Voldemar Väli

    2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

  • Masing`s Landscape. Part I
    Masing`s Landscape. Part I

    Original title: Masingu maastikud: Kitsas rada keset metsi

    2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

    The first part of the enlightening film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes" directed by Vallo Kepp - documentary that has been dedicated to Uku Masing's - the scholar, poet and original culture philosopher - childhood years and the period of development in his home village in Rapla county, Estonia.

  • Teacher Johannes Käis
    Teacher Johannes Käis

    Title in Estonian: Õpetaja Johannes Käis

    1990 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Peep Puks

    Portrait documentary directed by Peep Puks about the life and ideas on education of Johannes Käis, Estonian teacher and head of school innovation in Estonia.

  • Tartu muinsuskaitsepäevad
    Tartu muinsuskaitsepäevad

    1988 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski

  • Rändaja
    Rändaja

    1986 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

  • The Sounds of Kaleva
    The Sounds of Kaleva

    Original title: Kaleva hääled

    1986 | Documentary | Director: Lennart Meri

    Three-act documentary essay directed by Lennart Meri about memory and the historical cultural connections between the Finno-Ugric peoples.

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1985 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek

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