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  • Seneca's Day
    Seneca's Day

    Original title: Seneca päev

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kristijonas Vildžiūnas

    It is 1989, the final year of the Soviet era in Vilnius. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship. Its motto is, “Live each day as if it was your last.”

  • 1944
    1944

    Original title: 1944

    2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

  • Death Dance
    Death Dance

    Original title: Surmatants

    1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tõnu Virve

    The first full-length feature film directed by Tõnu Virve is a collection of fragments inspired by the painting "Danse Macabre" ("Dance of Death") by Lübeck painter Bernt Notke, telling the speculated version of the painting's journey to Tallinn.

  • Autumn
    Autumn

    Original title: Sügis

    1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

    The folksy comedy is the last one in the trilogy based on the works by Oskar Luts directed by Arvo Kruusement. Previous films of the trilogy are "Summer" (released in 1976) and "Spring" (released in 1969). In "Autumn" the main focus is on Jorh Adniel Kiir, the tailor of Paunvere, and his misadventures while getting married and buying a farm.

  • Näkimadalad II jagu
    Näkimadalad II jagu

    1987 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Olav Neuland

  • Õhtust hommikuni
    Õhtust hommikuni

    1962 | Students film, Short | Director: Leida Laius

  • Life in a Citadel
    Life in a Citadel

    Original title: Elu tsitadellis

    1947 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Herbert Rappaport

    The first feature film produced in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, directed by Herbert Rappaport from Lenfilm production company. It is based on the play "Life in a Citadel" by August Jakobson and was awarded with the Stalin Prize. The film features many leading Estonian film actors of that time.

  • The Borrowed Wife
    The Borrowed Wife

    Title in Estonian: Laenatud naene

    1913 | Feature film, Short | Director:

    Burlesque comedy filmed in Tallinn in early 20th century where among Estonian actors the following ones act: Paul Pinna, Betty Kuuskmann, August Kuuskmann and Alfred Sällik. Reputedly the first Estonian feature film that has been preserved.

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