Dance With The Devil's Grandma (2015)

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin Päts at the psychiatric hospital in the Russian town of Burashevo. An Eesti Video team of videographers was then present at the exhumation of the remains of President Päts, the identification process and re-burial in Estonia. The company’s archives have also yielded video reports on the re-opening of the monuments to Konstantin Päts and Johan Laidoner.