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  • Stranger than kindness
    Stranger than kindness

    2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ian Cottage

  • Too Tired to Hate
    Too Tired to Hate

    Original title: Ma olen väsinud vihkamast

    1995 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hannes Lintrop, Renita Lintrop

    The first full-length feature film directed by Hannes and Renita Lintrop is a crime thriller telling the story of young people being in tight corners. The film has been awarded numerous festival prizes.

  • Everyone gets his own
    Everyone gets his own

    Original title: Igaühele oma

    1990 | Feature film, Short | Director: Hardi Volmer

    Grotesque allegorical film directed by Hardi Volmer that tells about a little man, his fears and stagnation in the world.

  • I am not a Tourist, I Live Here
    I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

    Part 1 and 2

    1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

    The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

  • Games For Teenagers
    Games For Teenagers

    Original title: Naerata ometi

    1985 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius, Arvo Iho

    The feature film directed by Leida Laius is based on the youth novel "Stepmother" by Silvia Rannamaa. The socially sensitive drama is telling the story about the children growing up in an orphanage and about parents' responsibility for their children's fate.

  • Lurich
    Lurich

    1983 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik

    The film directed by Valentin Kuik is based on a true story about the life of Georg Lurich, famous Estonian wrestler, focusing on the scandalous theft of the collection of his prizes during the wrestling tournament in Tallinn in 1910.

  • Kolm tundi rongini
    Kolm tundi rongini

    1982 | Students film, Short | Director: Katrin Laur

  • Mees ja naine
    Mees ja naine

    1972 | TV feature, TV Short | Director: Mark Soosaar

  • The Männard Family
    The Männard Family

    Original title: Perekond Männard

    1960 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin

    A historical drama directed by Aleksandr Mandrõkin about the fate of two working class families in 1918-1924.

  • Uninvited Guests
    Uninvited Guests

    Original title: Kutsumata külalised

    1959 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Igor Jeltsov

    The propagandistic thriller is based on true events, telling about Estonian expatriates hired by the Western Secret Service and sent back to the Soviet Estonia in 1950s in order to carry out diversionary activities.

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