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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Domestic Fitless

Original title: Olmeheidutus

2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Hardi Volmer

A young and strong human body is mother nature’s piece of art.

A young and strong human body is mother nature’s piece of art. But should everything it faces become art as well? And if all art is only an imitation, then what does the world of fine arts imitate if some its closets are full of hidden 3D ghosts?
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The Man with green backpack

Original title in Estonian: Rohelise seljakotiga mees

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Raigo Saariste

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit, completed as a group work of film students.

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit. Power rules through fear, spirit threatens power by striving for freedom. A man with a backpack arrives in the waiting room of the railway station and starts reading poems in a loud voice, but the officials of the station cannot allow such disorder.
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A Man Who Never Was

Original title: Inimene, keda polnud

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The period film directed by Peeter Simm is dedicated to those working at radio stations in Estonia. Events from the lives of Imbi Valgemäe, Mari Möldre and Ruut Tarmo are brought to the viewer. Based on the oral and written memoirs of radio and theatre people.

Imbi Tamm has grown up together with the sounds and voices of radio broadcasting. She becomes an adult during the 1940s - the cataclysmic years in Estonian history. When she starts her career as a radio voice with high hopes and optimism in Stalinist Estonia, she will collide with the reality of the era where people's fate, sufferings and happiness depend on current ideology and government. The film is dedicated to the memory of the radio voices that have been accompanied the lives of many generations.
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Vernanda

based on Arvo Valton's short story “Vernanda leib”

1988 | Feature film, Short | Director: Roman Baskin

Debut film directed Roman Baskin is an artistic caricature of totalitarian society, depicting the protagonist's arrival at an isolated city.

Debut film directed Roman Baskin is an artistic caricature of totalitarian society, depicting the protagonist's arrival at an isolated city. The film was set in Sillamäe – an Estonian town where one could enter only with special permission during the Soviet times since bombs were made there. There was a factory of enriching uranium. The city called Vernanda was used as a generalization to illustrate the functioning of totalitarian society and its influence to those living under the Soviet regime.
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Breakfast On The Grass

Original title: Eine murul

1987 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn
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Hell

Original title: Põrgu

1983 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat

The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".

The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell".
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Madness

Original title: Hullumeelsus

1968 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The tragicomedy directed by Kaljo Kiisk takes place in a mental hospital. Men ruled by the totalitarian regime reach the point where madness and normality hopelessly intermingle. The film was banned to be screened in the Soviet Union for 20 years.

Right before the end of the World War II, a special forces squad enters the mental hospital, located in a good-looking old manor house, in order to take away the patients. Yet, Gestapo has been informed that there is a spy hiding among the insane. Officer Windisch has to find the malingerer among the few hundred mentally ill patients and a chase begins.
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