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  • Pilots on the Way Home
    Pilots on the Way Home

    Original title: Lendurid koduteel

    2014 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn

    Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert.

  • ENSV Ülemnõukogu Presiidiumi esimees Arnold Rüütel
    ENSV Ülemnõukogu Presiidiumi esimees Arnold Rüütel

    1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško

  • Vilniuse veretöö leinamiiting
    Vilniuse veretöö leinamiiting

    Eesti Kroonika nr 1, 5/7

    1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško

  • Price
    Price

    Title in Estonian: Hind

    1978 | Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik

    Aavo Pikkuus - olympic medalist, world champion, winner of the 30th Peace Tour.

  • Woman Heating the Sauna
    Woman Heating the Sauna

    Original title: Naine kütab sauna

    1978 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

    The monodrama directed by Arvo Kruusement is based on the novel "Winter Holiday" by Villem Gross. The film tells the story of Anu Soldam, a working class woman, during a few winter days while she is being told by her boss to go to the countryside to heat the sauna for foreign guests.

  • Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
    Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

    Title in Estonian: Surma hinda küsi surnutelt

    1977 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

    Historical film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is observing the destiny of the dissenters in the bourgeois Estonia after the coup in December 1924.

  • Daisy Petal Game: Tattoo
    Daisy Petal Game: Tattoo

    based on the short novel "Gipsies" by Kalju Saaber

    1977 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

    Short film directed by Peeter Simm based on the short story "Gypsies" by Kalju Saaber. Artistic director of the film Andrei Tarkovsky.

  • Ahvatluste tund
    Ahvatluste tund

    1970 | Musical film | Director: Elmo Lööve

  • Kolme katku vahel
    Kolme katku vahel

    1970 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Virve Aruoja

  • I am Ready, I will Go...
    I am Ready, I will Go...

    Original title: Olen valmis, ma lähen…

    1967 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

    Documentary about Boris Vilde, hero of French resistance movement.

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