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Nightingale

Original title: Ööbik

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

Russian guard Aleksei risks his life, to save an Estonian girl who the KGB is planning to capture for singing outside the prison where he works.

Autumn 1944 in Tallinn, Estonia; German forces retreat as the Russian army settles in. Young soldier Aleksei is sent from the frontline to work in a prison filled with Estonian political prisoners. While doing his rounds at night Aleksei is stirred by the beautiful voice of Saale, an Estonian girl singing to the prisoners from the other side of the prison walls. He learns that the Russian military police plans on capturing Saale; Aleksei must risk his own safety to warn her before it is too late.
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ASPHYXIA

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Sergei Batrak

Soldier finds a stranger in the basement of an occupied house, whom he discovers to be a copy of himself from the future, on the edge of suicide.

Ivan, a slavic looking soldier, loots an occupied house and finds a silhouette of a person from his army attempting suicide there. As he tries to talk the silhouette out of taking his own life, a war- truck suddenly passes by the window and illuminates the face of the stranger. It is identical to Ivan's but damaged. Ivan has a panic attack and collapses as his future self warns of a prophecy.
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Erna At War

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

When Erna’s simple-minded son, Kalle, is conscripted for military service, she swaps identity with a soldier and heads towards the front to protect her child. While the world is at war, Erna fights her own.

The year is 1918. The Great War is raging through Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary, tranquil life at home in Bramstrup where she lives with her simple-minded son, Kalle. That is until the day when everything changes as the village constable Meier shows up to conscript Kalle for military service for the German Empire of which Southern Jutland, at this time, is a part. Ever since Kalle’s dramatic birth, Erna has promised the Lord that no one should ever be allowed to touch so much as a single hair on the boy’s head and now she has to hand ...
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Mother. In the Name of The Millions

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

When a mother hides another mother's son, she faces her destiny, same way the millions of mothers did so in those remarkable days we shall never forget.

A dying son recalls his Mother. She lives during a war in an occupied territory. Out of instinct, she hides in her home an injured soldier. She takes care of him as of her own child who is also at war. One day the occupants come back to the village and discover him. By interrogating the Mother and fellow villagers, they investigate whether the man is her son. And now the Mother faces her destiny, same way millions of mothers faced it in those remarkable days which we should not forget.
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Hella W

Original title: Hella W

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juha Wuolijoki

An epic biographical film about Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish public figure and writer who was born and raised in Estonia.

The events of the film "Hella W" take place during the most decisive decade in European history - from 1920s to 1940s. By that time, Wuolijoki had earned millions and written several politically incorrect plays. Due to her left-wing views, her activities were observed both by British, Soviet and Finnish secret services. When the events of the Second World War developed, Hella found herself in a situation that knew no simple solutions ... Among other jobs, Wuolijoki also worked as a co-author for Postimees newspaper. Her plays are a part of history of literature, including the Niskavuori series, The Farmer's ...
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Lili

Original title: Lili

2008 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?".

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?", is it a memory picture of the first love of passed times or the first intercourse with a prostitute earning her regular income. Lily is not only a distant hero from a song. Every soldier has his own Lily, would it be the first love from school, front prostitute or simply phantasm. But always, however, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate.....
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The Second Coming

Original title of the film: Teine tulemine

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tanel Toom

War drama directed by Tanel Toom is an allegory about life, death and love; also a story about the fate of two brothers in war.

Soldiers are waiting for the enemy's attach in the trench, among them being twin brothers Thomas and Marcus. The foray will end as unexpectedly as it started. An unknown enemy disappears and the whole squad will get killed. Thomas is the only one who survives. Unable to put up with his brother's death, Thomas will start a journey leading out of the war together with his lifeless brother. The journey will become an escape in a dream-like world where the unknown enemy is constantly keeping up with Thomas.
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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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Big Tyll

Original title: Suur Tõll

1980 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat
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War of the Birds and Animals

Original title: Lindude ja loomade sõda

1969 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars

A bear wants to destroy a little bird's nest but all other birds come to help.

A bear wants to destroy a little bird's nest but all other birds come to help. A war bursts between birds and animals that birds will win. Music is playd by instrumental group conducted by Eri Klas.
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