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The Last Relic

2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A spirited 20-year-old Left Block activist tries to find common ground among Russia’s political activists and opposition groups, hoping to bring positive changes to society. Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of open-minded people desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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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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Cosmonaut

Original title: Kosmonaut

2019 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.

An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.
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Mister Wall and the Wind

Original title: Jüri - see mulk, ehk mis tuul müürile...

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn Säde

Documentary by Enn Säde portrays Jüri Müür - an important filmmaker in Estonian culture whose films are among the best ones in Estonian national filmography.

Enn Säde's documentary about Jüri Müür who was his colleague and friend, an Estonian filmmaker (1929-1984). When Jüri was fifteen he joined the support service of German air force; during the last days of war he travelled to Germany, France and Africa. In 1946 he returned home and soon escaped to Karjala, Finland from KGB. He got acquainted with film during his studies in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. In a way, Jüri Müür became the icebreaker of the birth of Estonian national film in 1960s. He made five full-length feature films, a couple of dozens documentaries, wrote ...
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Igavesti noored (Afganistanis sõdinud noormeestest)

1988 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mart Taevere
Acquaintances 5 (Trip to London)

Original title: Tuttavad 5 (Londoni reis)

1980 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu's trip to London in July 1974, Estonian Embassy in London. Acquaintances of the Nõu family.

Jaak Kiviloog defends his Doctoral thesis in Uppsala in March 1974. Enn Nõu's trip to London from June 5 to June 8. Sightseeings: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Palace, Big Ben - the clock tower of the British Parliament building, Westminster Abbey or the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster, Piccadilly Circus, Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, River Thames and its bridges. Red double decker buses can be seen in the city, also taxis, cars, peaceful equestrian police and hurrying city residents. Monuments. Inner and outer views of the Estonian embassy in London. ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Toivo Kusmin
Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Trip to Asia in 1964

Title in Estonian: Aasia reis 1964

1964 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Recollections of trips to Asia - Hong Kong, Vietnam, Manila, New Delhi, Egyptian pyramids and the Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

SAS passenger aircraft is taking off. The familiar coastline of Sweden becomes more distant. A stopover in a Middle East airport. Aerial views: winding rivers, flooded territories seen from above. Hongkong, the harbour city. View from the bay to the harbour, the ships and the city. Diverse appearance of the city life - rikshaws waiting for riders; double-deckers; barefoot children; Hilton Hotel. Views of the landscape from a small aeroplane. Emblem of the Asian People's Anti-Communist Leage (APACL). 10th conference takes place in Saigon, Vietnam. The opening and speeches. The future President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, ...
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Creators of the Legend

Original title: Legendi loojad

1963 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Evald Mägi

Amateur feature film produced in 1963, co-financed by the expatriate Estonians living in Canada and based on Eerik Heine’s original script. The film portrays conditions in Estonia during 1946-1947, fight of the ‘forest brothers’ with the occupying forces and worry towards the outburst of the next war, mixed with the hope to restore the independence of the Republic of Estonia.

In 1946-47, a group of resistance fighters led by captain Lembit Mõtus hide in a bunker of the ’forest brothers’, waiting for liberation of Estonia and struggle with local Soviet authorities. After a rape attempt in the woods, Lembit's pretty bride Linda moves to live with the ’forest brothers’. Local fellow villager working at railway informs them about the arriving train transporting money. They rob the train and decide to share the million Roublesa the with hundred neighbouring farms for paying compulsory taxes. Villager Endel, forest warden Juhan and his wife Maali get killed in the battle.
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