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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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Linna hall

2017 | Documentary | Director: Kalev Lepik
Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1

Original title: Kosmos 68 - Legendid vol 1

2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space.

Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space. A world of contrasts – pioneers placing flower chaplets to Lenin’s monument and Scott McKenzie “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear the flowers in your head….” First Estonian beat-bands were born already in the early 60’s. Names like “Juuniorid”, “Rütmikud”, “Optimistid”, “Mikronid”, “Kristallid”, “Virmalised” (Juniors, Rythmics, Microns, Crystals, Polar Lights) and a lot of others, not so well known, performed almost every week on youth dance-nights. The repertoire was mainly acquired by listening and recording music from ...
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Balti Assamblee Tallinnas.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
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Üks aasta kolmesaja viiekümnest

1982 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
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Tootmiskoondise Eesti Põlevkivi A.Bõkovski nim pioneerilaager

1977 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart
Emissaries

Original title: Emissarid

1974 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Documentary by Semyon Shkolnikov about the ideological diversion against the Soviet Union.

Propaganda film constructs an ideological character of an enemy even if the borderlines of the portrait are vague and scattered: the foreign tourists visiting Tallinn, nameless representatives of religion from Estonia and abroad. Photo and film frames introduce the degradation of the Western society. As the filmmakers provide their resume: while fighting against the Communist ideology USA intelligence has admitted that the church is an effective means of fight - it helps to filter in the enemy's territory and to guarantee a base for fifth column activities. The documentary shows Finnish tourists who bring with them religious literature, mostly Bibles ...
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Juhan Smuul

1972 | Documentary | Director: Reet Kasesalu

Documentary dedicated to the memory of folk writer Juhan Smuul, his life and literary work.

Documentary about Estonian Soviet folk writer Juhan Smuul (1922-1971) introduces mainly his literary work but also the man himself as a writer and a member of society. The large part of the film has been dedicated to Juhan Smuul's birth place, Muhu island, Estonia. The local people and way of life have given Juhan Smuul a special sense about his place and responsibilities in society.
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