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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Escape

Title in Estonian: Põgenemine

1991 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Historical documentary by Andres Sööt and Jaak Lõhmus about Estonians and Estonian Swedes who fled from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.

Historical retrospective to the escape of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944. The documentary begins and ends with the episodes of crackling logfires and rippling waves in summer 1990 by the Estonian coasts where 46 years ago the boats filled with refugees left Estonia across the stormy Baltic Sea. Photographs, rare film footage and personal recollections of refugees express their journey and the further destiny of the refugees during the first post-war years. The film is an emotional mosaic about the great saga of escaping the war.
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Aksel Mark Giving an Interview on July 17, 1986

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu annab Aksel Mark 17.07.1986

1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with politician and editor Aksel Mark in his home in Uppsala on July 17, 1986: among other things, he recalls the War of Independence, university studies, working experience in the field of agronomy, fraternity "Veljesto", political life in the Republic of Estonia, the beginning of the Second World War, escape to Finland.

Interview with policitian and editor Aksel Mark in his home in Uppsala on July 17, 1986. He shortly recalls of his home and father, completing two years of elementary school instead of four in Karaski. When he talks about the War of Independence, he remembers the refugees and his father's imprisonment. Mark served in the artillery of the defence forces. He studied agronomy at the University of Tartu and recalls his lecturers. Memories of the fraternity "Veljesto". He started to work as an agricultural adviser in Rakvere in 1937 and continued in Viru-Jaagupi. Aksel Mark points out the positive aspects ...
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Estonians. That's the Way it Was.

Original title: Eestlased. Nii see oli

1984 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Film for the children of expatriate Estonians in Canada introduces the history of the Republic of Estonia, events of WW2 and the destiny of refugees.

Lesson of the expatriate Estonian pupils in Canada, singing class. Film's director Arved Viirlaid with his wife explains the reasons of making the film. Chronicle frames: Tallinn before World War I, Nicholas II of Russia, battle scenes from World War I. Revolution of 1917 in St. Petersburg, Kerenski, Lenin, manifesto of declaration of the Republic of Estonia; German forces in 1918, the Red Army, Danish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, armoured trains and armoured vehicles; the original document of the Treaty of Tartu. Chronicle scenes about the restructuring of the Republic of Estonia after the War of Independence: ...
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Interview with Helmut Maandi on May 16, 1983

Title in Estonian: Intervjuu Helmut Maandiga 16.05.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with politician Helmut Maandi in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983.

Enn Nõu interviews Helmut Maandi, the State Secretary during the constitutional government formed by Otto Tief in 1944, in his home in Högdalen, Stockholm on May 16, 1983. They discuss important subjects: the activity of the National Committee of the Republic of Estonia in 1944, arrestments of the security police, the members of the committee going underground, forming the government under the guidance of Otto Tief in September 1944 and the further destiny of the members of the goverment, activities of the politicians who fleed to the West. Helmut Maandi reads out the text from the leaflets of the National ...
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Linar-Linholm Chronicles No. 2

Original title: Linari-Linholmi kroonika nr 2

1946 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The life of the Linholm family in prewar Estonia. Emigrating to Sweden on a ship in 1944. Daily life during the postwar years.

Family Linholm in Pirita on a windy day. Tuulike Raili Linholm with her father Artur Aleksander Linholm and mother Valentina. The child enters the car. Stormy sea, waves are hitting the road. Views of the cars driving on Pirita Road and of the panorama of Tallinn. Little Tuulike with her mother and father on the beach in Narva-Jõesuu. General view to the vacationers on the beach and to the beach house. A group of people walking along the forest path. Valentina and Tuulike on the terrace of cafe-restaurant "Capriccio". Artur Linholm with his daughter. Valentina with a merry crowd eating ...
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From the Coast of Estonia to the Coast of Sweden

Title in Estonian: Eesti rannast Rootsi randa

1945 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Swedes leave Estonia in August 1944. Life of Estonians in Mölle Refugee Centre, Sweden in 1945.

Departure of the expatriate Swedes and Estonians from Estonia to Sweden in 1944 (recorded during August 27-28, 1944). Life of Estonian people in Mölle Refugee Centre in Sweden (filmed in 1945). Loading packages on the truck. Truck ride to the harbour of Haapsalu. People waiting for boarding in the harbour. People are eating. Schooner "Juhan" by the pier. Security police is giving out departure permissions, the cameraman focuses on Ludwig Lienhard. Horse carts loaded with suitcases by the pier. Mother is breastfeeding her baby. Checking the lists. The camera is on Harald Perten. Estonian Red Cross car in the harbour. ...
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My Father The Spy

Escape

Aksel Mark Giving an Interview on July 17, 1986

Estonians. That's the Way it Was.

Interview with Helmut Maandi on May 16, 1983

Linar-Linholm Chronicles No. 2

From the Coast of Estonia to the Coast of Sweden