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The Bronze Night

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Sergei Batrak

During the massive "Bronze Night" protests in 2007, AIVAR, an Estonian bar owner, stays at his property to protect it from looters , when a knock on the door changes everything.

Aivar watches the live broadcast with dread as he tries desperately to keep control over his bar. When a russian couple shows up behind his door looking for help, a conflict arises within the man- to trust and help or to rather safe than sorry and protect his property. In time the skepticism fades, but just as relations are getting warmer, the sudden reveal of stolen jewels sets Aivar back again, fearing the worst. Fear mixes with greed as he tries to use this new situation in his favor. Soon enough the rioters break in and steal all that Aivar ...
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Heinz Valk

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

Portrait documentary by Kristjan Svirgsden about Heinz Valk, artist and social activist.

Heinz Valk is the troubadour of the Singing Revolution, an artist and a social activist who has become famous for his sentence: "Some day we will win for no matter what!" Documentary tells the story about Heinz - a founder of People's Front, a witty caricature artist, an independent and idealistic thinker who despises consumer mentality. The historical cliche "Every revolution devours its children" applies to Heinz Valk. This film is a recording of the daily life and thoughts of an elderly man; yet, it gives a general overview about creative people in politics who after retiring won't classify either ...
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Legacy

Original title: Pärand

2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

Legacy is a documentary about the „closed city“ of Sillamäe – a city that Stalin founded for the needs of the first atomic bomb built in the Soviet Union. The local Estonian population was almost entirely relocated and the neoclassical resort town was virtually rebuilt for the Soviet elite working in the uranium enriching factory. The inhertance that period left is a complex one – including a radioactive tailing pond. The Soviet hegemony lingers on in Sillamäe, where the tiny Estonian population still strives to retain their culture. The documentary investigates the multifaceted relationship between state and – how did the closed ...
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Alyosha

Original title: Aljoša

2008 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Meelis Muhu

Meelis Muhu's documentary tells the story of the Soviet monument - the Bronze Soldier called Alyosha that was located in central Tallinn. The events around the monument culminated due to the dislocation of the monument in April 2007 and the following events called the Bronze Night when massive rioting and civil disorder took place on the streets of Tallinn.

After Estonia regained its independence in 1991, most of the Soviet monuments were taken down. The monument called the Bronze Soldier in the central Tallinn, however, remained to its place. People have called the monument "Alyosha" - the statue depicting a Red Army soldier was erected in 1947 in honour of the memory of Soviet soldiers killed in the World War II. For Estonian nationalists the monument was the symbol of Soviet occupation. For many Russian-speaking people, the Bronze Soldier was one of the few symbols left that connected them to Russia and Russian identity. Excerpts of archival material tell ...
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Blood

2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Jüri Muttika

The course work of film master's student Jüri Muttika, who, together with screenwriter Piret Sammel, has directed a humorous, but at the same time set in real Estonian society, story about a conscript serving time in the Estonian Defense Forces and his Russian bride, who urgently needs a blood transfusion from her loved one to save the life of her brother injured in the riots, based on the events that became known as Bronze Night.

A story about love and humanity, which director Jüri Muttika connects with the events of Bronze Age, which shocked Estonian society. A talented script and character actors make the story engaging, raising humanity above politics.
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

The monument of the Bronze Soldier in Tõnismägi, Tallinn denoted the symbol of occupation for half a century for Estonian people, but for the Russian-speaking local residents the monument marked the victory over fascism. In April 2007 the Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the government of the Republic of Estonia decided to move the Bronze Soldier monument from central Tallinn to the Defence Forces military cemetery due to the fact that the statue had become a source of tension. As a result, a violent chaos bursted out in Tallinn. The documentary by Kanal 2 gives an overview about the events ...
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn