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6 Hours

Original title: 6 tundi

2005 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov

During six hours thousands of tourists from the American cruise ship are being introduced to the city of Tallinn - they are provided with a short city tour enriched by subjective commentaries of local guides and some souvenirs.

Huge cruise ships come to Tallinn in summer, each one carrying thousands of tourists, mostly from the United States. They stay in Tallinn just for 6 hours. Endless lines of bus-drivers, tour-guides and tour-managers await them in the harbour. The cruisers rush through the main sightseeing locations, eat out in town and board on the ship again. Tallinn was just another pit-stop on their long route. The pier is filled with waving customer servants exhausted from the day’s tense work. “6 Hours” tells a humorous story about one summer day in one of the Eastern European town called Tallinn.
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Beautiful is the land

Title in Estonian: Ilus on maa

1984 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Rein Maran

Poetic documentary directed by Rein Maran about Estonian nature, history and the present day.

How far can one travel in Estonia during half an hour? And to perform everything one has seen in a flowing poetic language? The essence of the times, places, nature and people taken from the summer of 1984 when Lasnamäe district in Tallinn was young, rural life in Estonia was blooming and people mainly drove cars made in Soviet Union. Were these truly the best years of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia or did it only seem so? The red roofs of the Old Town of Tallinn have always been red; Tartu will always greet the Midsummer Day with ...
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511 Best Photographs of Mars

Original title: 511 paremat fotot Marsist

1968 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Andres Sööt, a legendary documentary filmmaker in Estonia, records the environments and people in Tallinn cafes with his candid camera in late 1960s.

The film introduces a selection of various guest types in cafes and night clubs in late 1960s when old ladies still had some bourgeois manners from the first republic of Estonia and the youngsters of the Soviet regime were not served in a restaurant if they had no proper clothing. The guests of Tallinn's legendary cafes "Pearl" and "Moscow" were filmed in their own time. The uniqueness of the film is expressed through a strangely independent soundtrack that observes everyday bustle from the heights of melancholy poetry and remote uranography. Artur Alliksaar's poetry is read by Aarne Üksküla.
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Vendluspäevad

1967 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Parvel
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Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin
Rahva vara kaitseks

1957 | Commissioned, Other categories, Documentary | Director: Jevgeni Rosental
Eesti NSV paviljon Üleliidulisel Põllumajandusnäitusel

1956 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Vera Parvel, Semjon Školnikov
Reis mööda Rootsit

1956 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
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