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  • Soviet Hippies
    Soviet Hippies

    Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

    Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

  • Balance between Man and Nature
    Balance between Man and Nature

    Original title: Inimese ja looduse tasakaal

    2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

    The project of protecting and restoring endangered species in North-West of Estonia was the initiative of European Union Life-Nature Programme.

  • Two-Faced Island
    Two-Faced Island

    Original title: Kahe näoga saar

    2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kerttu Soans

    Tanja lives on Vormsi island for the second winter. Every morning she opens the door of the village shop for the visitors, either for one or one hundred people.

  • Escape
    Escape

    Title in Estonian: Põgenemine

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

    Historical documentary by Andres Sööt and Jaak Lõhmus about Estonians and Estonian Swedes who fled from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.

  • Randlased
    Randlased

    1990 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Toivo Kusmin

  • Vormsi päevad
    Vormsi päevad

    1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Olav Kruus

  • Ajutised inimesed
    Ajutised inimesed

    1980 | Documentary | Director: Olav Neuland

  • NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimised Vormsil
    NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimised Vormsil

    1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peep Puks

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski

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