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Acts of the unaccused

Original title in Estonian: Need teod süüdistavad

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaspar Erik Lind

The short documentary by film student Kaspar Erik Lind is about the massacres that took place in the early 1940s on the territory of Scheel Manor in Pirita-Kose.

In the early 1940’s, the lushious greenery at Scheeli manor was abruptly coloured red.
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Inherited Memories

2019 | Documentary | Director: Len Murusalu

Short documentary explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations.

In 1941, a young Estonian railway worker was nearly executed for attempting to escape conscription by the occupying forces. Seventy-seven years later, his granddaughter revisits the places from his stories to gain deeper insight into the connections between them. The short documentary explores the notion that traumatic experiences can be passed on to future generations.
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Silent Surrender

Original title: Ma elasin Eesti Vabariigis

2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Documentary by Liina Triškina about the year of 1939 that was fateful for the republic of Estonia. The film studies the subjects of freedom and critical situations, doings and undoings.

What does it feel to live in the turbulent times as a ten-year-old, in the country that one day thrives and the next day will disappear from the world map? The pivotal times of the year 1939 both for Estonia and the whole world changed history. The filmmakers examine the events side by side with the memories of the children of the era. Family photos, newspaper cuts, dramatic archival excerpts, memories of elderly people who used to be children at that time - all of this reflect the tragic events of 1939 and the silent destruction of the Republic of ...
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Fortieth War

Original title: Neljakümnes sõda

2005 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the Narva Battalion. The greatest value of the battalion was the Estonian men who volunteered to the Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942.

Documentary by Andres Sööt has been dedicated to the Narva Battalion of Estonian Grenadiers where the soldiers fought for the independence of the Republic of Estonia in World War 2. These Estonian men who volunteered to Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942 got a proper training in order to fight in the corps of Wiking SS division against the Soviet troops. The battle of Tannenberg and battles in Ukraine caused many victims; yet, it was not up to them to prevent the second Soviet occupation in Estonia.
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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.

Historical retrospective to the escape of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944. The documentary begins and ends with the episodes of crackling logfires and rippling waves in summer 1990 by the Estonian coasts where 46 years ago the boats filled with refugees left Estonia across the stormy Baltic Sea. Photographs, rare film footage and personal recollections of refugees express their journey and the further destiny of the refugees during the first post-war years. The film is an emotional mosaic about the great saga of escaping the war.
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Interview with Mihkel Martsoo in Askvägen on November 23, 1985, 1/2

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu Mihkel Martsooga Askvägenil 23.11.1985, 1/2

1985 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu's interview with Major Mihkel Martsoo in Uppsala, November 1985. They talk about the War of Independence, Republic of Estonia, World War II, The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Forest Brothers and prison camps in Siberia.

Enn Nõu interviews Mihkel Martsoo in his home in Uppsala in November 1985. The old man recalls his studies in Pärnu Upper Secondary School for Boys, teachers, schoolmates and his activities during the publication of the Estonian Declaration of Independence (also known as the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia). The beginning of the War of Independence takes the 16-year-old young man with his schoolmates to the war. When back in Pärnu, he joins the defence battalion and then to the military school that was founded on April 22, 1919. Martsoo recalls the officers of the military school and the ...
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Interview with Helmut Maandi on May 16, 1983

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu Helmut Maandiga 16.05.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with politician Helmut Maandi in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983.

Enn Nõu interviews Helmut Maandi, the State Secretary during the constitutional government formed by Otto Tief in 1944, in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983. They discuss important subjects: the activity of the National Committee of the Republic of Estonia in 1944, arrestments of the security police, the members of the committee going underground, forming the government under the guidance of Otto Tief in September 1944 and the further destiny of the members of the goverment, activities of the politicians who fleed to the West. Helmut Maandi reads out the text from the leaflets of the National ...
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Võidu hind

1970 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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I am Ready, I will Go...

Original title: Olen valmis, ma lähen…

1967 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Documentary about Boris Vilde, hero of French resistance movement.

Portrait documentary directed by Semyon Shkolnikov about Boris Vilde, a talented linguist and ethnographer who became a resistance leader in France during the World War 2. The documentary introduces Vilde's educational background, professional and scientific achievements and his activities during the World War II in Paris. Memories about Boris Vilde are being recollected by his mother, wife and former co-fighters. The filmmakers have used excerpts from Vilde's letters and his prison diary.
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Memento

1966 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

Documentary by Ülo Tambek about the Soviet soldiers who fought in Hiiumaa island in 1941 and about the life in the island in mid-1960s.

According to the director of the film, Ülo Tambek, the documentary has been dedicated to the Soviet soldiers who fought in World War II in the late fall of 1941, protecting the island of Hiiumaa from the German forces. It is late fall of 1941. Oryol has surrendered, Kharkov has fallen, Leningrad is enclosed, there are German forces in Khimki station. Deep in the rear, about 400 km from the front in Estonian islands soldiers and seamen fought without any hope. They knew that the key for Leningrad and Moscow was in their hands. Only a few were left from ...
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