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  • Bigger Than Sports
    Bigger Than Sports

    Original title: Suurem kui sport

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

    Uncompromising "Crazy Coach" Arvi Aavik is creating the Estonian women's wrestling team out of a few capable girls.

  • Taagepera
    Taagepera

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm

  • Koma
    Koma

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

    Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

  • Out of the hole
    Out of the hole

    Original title: August välja!

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa

    Leida Rammo, Estonian oldest performing actress, believes in miracles and passionately fights for the new building of Tallinn City Theatre.

  • Mikk
    Mikk

    2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat, Peeter Brambat

    Portrait documentary about Mikk Mikiver, a theatre director and an actor.

  • Private life
    Private life

    1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin

  • Ernst Jaakson at his home in Bronxville
    Ernst Jaakson at his home in Bronxville

    Title in Estonian: Ernst Jaakson oma kodus Bronxville'is

    1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Ernst Jaakson, the Consul General of the Republic in Estonia in the United States of America, at his home in Bronxville, New York, on October 19, 1996.

  • Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 1
    Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 1

    Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, I jagu

    1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

    Life of expatriate Estonians in Canberra, Australia - past times and at the present day. The life story of a famous scientist Armin Öpik.

  • Recollection
    Recollection

    Title in Estonian: Meenutus

    1987 | Other categories, Documentary, Portrait, Commissioned | Director: Heini Drui

    Documentary about composer Heino Eller, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Estonian SSR. The film is dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Heino Eller who was born on March 7, 1887.

  • Peadirigent
    Peadirigent

    1985 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

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