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Tõnis Mägi

2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke

A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.

The film is partly based on Tõnis Mägi’s life story but focuses more on his contemporary works and the new songs he’s created. It shows how each new story reflects his unique world through different moments from his own life and Estonian cultural history.
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Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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Bonus track

2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik
Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Working Title: Wunderkind

Original title: Tööpealkiri: Imelaps

2012 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills.

Alex Prior was born in 1992 in London to an English father and a Russian mother. Even as a child he was being called “a little Pavarotti” or “a little Mozart” because of his angelic voice and his composition skills. Alex completes his first composition aged eight and enters the St. Petersburg Conservatory aged 13, where he graduates in the composition and conducting master classes in 2010, aged 17. It is his mother in particular who pushes her son's career: She arranges concerts with leading orchestras in Russia and England, she admonishes him to practise and negotiates his contracts. And ...
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

Original title: Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 etüüdi piltides

2010 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film portrait by Marianne Kõrver about Estonian renowned composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

What does it really mean to be a composer? How is a musical work born? How do the first shivers of a thought and a graphical image turn into the first bars and further to a whole piece? What is a composer‘s responsibility towards his audience? The documentary observes different sides of being a composer – from writing a piece in the solitude of the woods of Hirmuste in the island Hiiumaa to orchestral rehearsals in cooperation with acclaimed conductors Paavo Järvi and Anu Tali, the travels and presentations in different parts of the world – Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and, naturally, ...
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The Sum of Absent Days

Original title: Äraoldud päevade summa

2005 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants.

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants. This film is about a powerful creative person who despite of the twists of the destiny wrote ten symphonies and became quite complicated symbol to a small nation.
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Tormis' Sledge of Song

Runic Songs of Tormis

2005 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

Documentary by Sulev Keedus about composer Veljo Tormis who has studied and created runic songs for about fifty years. The film introduces Tormis's thoughts and activities as well as the production of his musical piece "Estonian ballads".

“Runic Songs of Tormis” is not a biographic film about Veljo Tormis. This film does not leaf through old photo albums, nor does it tell stories about the exciting events in the composer’s life. Tormis is sitting in his summer cottage, enjoying silence around him. He says that he has put a full stop to writing music five years ago. He does not create any music any more. Instead of facing his piano he is solving crossword puzzles. Meanwhile, he is pondering on for how many years he has been involved in runic songs - some fifty years altogether. It ...
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Volikiri Alo Mattiisenile

1988 | Documentary | Director: Irene Lään
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Taasleitud laul

1977 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks