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Sander's Documentary

Original title: Sanderidokumentaalfilm

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.
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Baskin

Original title: Baskin

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Portrait documentary about actor and theatre director Eino Baskin.

A portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audiences (especially women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by some and cursed by others, and imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Baskin has built two theatres from the scratch. After the second stroke he was in a coma for 47 days but returned. A rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin’s life.
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Old Clown

Original title: Vana kloun

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Documentary film tells a story of legendary Soviet time clown Sergey Fatkin. Due to popularity he was allowed to pass iron curtain and visit 35 countries in times when many Soviets didn’t see any foreign country ever. At Paris nightclub Olympia Fatkin performed together with Jaques Brel. Later on Sergei Fatkin made a fatal mistake smuggling Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago into the country. Officially banned book was hand copied and passed around. KGB soon traced down Sergei Fatkin and the legendary clown was arrested, liberated from his titles, awards and private possessions. Ironically – the man who had passed around a book about Soviet prisons was imprisoned for years. Nowadays Sergei Fatkin, free again, is still working modestly as a clown, performing at kindergartens mostly.
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Wunderkind

Original title: Tsirkuselaps

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

As a five-year-old prodigy, he became a circus attraction. At the age of eight, the young virtuoso entertained Tsar Nicholas II and his Court. By the age of 17, he was an eagerly anticipated performer on the best stages of Europe. A year later, he conquered America as a xylophone virtuoso. He has been referred to as the world’s best jazz imitator. A tap-dancer and superb violinist. Audiences in Soviet Russia gave him standing ovations… in Soviet Georgia, he was the object of mass adulation. His stage career lasted for 80 years. So, who was this amazing artist?... The answer awaits you in ...
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Grisha

Original title: Griša

1996 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary about Grigori Kromanov - a film and theatre director - directed by Jüri Sillart.

On the basis of interviews held with Grigori Kromanov´s (1926 – 1984) family, schoolmates, friends, colleagues, co-fighters and opponents, and using extracts from films, Jüri Sillart has produced a psychological and creative documentary portrait about the film and theatre director who never ceased to seek his place in the world. Based on these recollections an image about a talented, human, kind, honest, restless and uncompromising man will be made, a portrait of someone as a prisoner stuck between two different culture; however, whose heart belonged to only one of them.
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Vanalinnastuudio direktor Eino Baskin

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško
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Lend üle mägede

1987 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui
Eesti teater 1980 aastal

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peeter Tooming
Tracks on snow

Original title: Jäljed lumel

1978 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leida Laius

Documentary directed by Leida Laius about Ants Jõgi, theatrical actor, Merited Artist of the Soviet Union, a grand master of small roles.

Ants Jõgi (1892-1983) is a dignified gentleman whose life has been mainly based on theatrical acting. He also has a spirit of an artist and an artisan. A 85-year-old man is lonely and has to go to a retirement home. Director Leida Laius's documentary tells a story about the life and work of the old actor as well as contemplates on the true values of life, old man's connections to the present and the past. The thoughts of the wise old man are enchanting with their simplicity and warmth.
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Eesti Riiklik Vene Draamateater 25 aastane

1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson