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Taevas, tule appi

2020 | Other categories | Director:
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The Sacred In The Secular

2014 | Students film, Produced in foreign university | Director: Karin Leivategija

Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio.

Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio. A clergyman and a DJ – it is a combination that comes across as surprising and raises questions even in a largely secular country like Estonia. But is the gap between religious and secular life really as wide as it is typically assumed to be?
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Guardian of the soul

Original title: Hingevalvur

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld

One woman with two controversial professions - a criminal investigator and a religious minister.

Some people know Eve Kruus as a strict criminal investigator, other people have learned that she is a merficul religious minister. Yet, there are people who happen to meet Eve in both professions. Eve changes her role of religious minister into a complete something opposite when she puts on her police uniform and istead of spreading the Word of God she starts to write down sins in the interrogation record. Eve guards the soul of a suffering person as well as the dignity of an injured party - she fights against evil.
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Etude of a Prayer

Original title: Etüüd palvest

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Siiri Timmerman, Jaan Kolberg

This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.

Generally, if people speak about convent in Pirita, they mean the ruins and many of them are surprised to discover that right there in Pirita, next to the old ruins, has been over ten years a fully operating Bridgettine convent. This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth. If during medieval the convent was an understandable part of social life then later, after the reformation, the tradition of a convent as an institution disappeared from Estonia and from our neighborhood. Today this ...
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Islam Eestis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Tõnu Virve
The Vicar of Halliste

Original title: Halliste kirikuõpetaja

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

During his unfair imprisonment in the Soviet Estonia a head of sovkhoz gets a divine revelation and he will enter a deal with God in order to set himself free.

Kalev Raave (1926-2004) was a journalist, a functionary of the Estonian Communist Party, head of Võrtsjärve collective farm and Otepää sovkhoz and head of the Youth Theatre. When he was 62 years old, he became a church minister. With his rich life experience and natural kindness, Kalev Raave won people's hearts and he started to restore Halliste church in Viljandi county, Estonia. He had experienced numerous miracles in his life. Miracle perception was one of the possible connections with God for Kalev Raave - without a miracle one won't be able to perceive the otherworldly.
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Gathering after Inaugurating Archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri in 1964

TItle in Estonian: Peapiiskop Johannes Oskar Lauri ametisse pühitsemise koosviibimine 1964

1964 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Inaugurating the new archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri in St. Jacob's Church, Stockholm after which a festive gathering is held on November 29, 1964.

The new archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri is being inaugurated on November 29, 1964. There are Swedish bishop Sven Danell, assistant dean Konrad Veem, conductor of the church choir Harri Kiisk, actor Edmar Kuus, Heinrich Mark, church minister and journalist Karl Laantee, Dean of Uppsala Jakob Aunver, the newly inaugurated archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri, Aadu Lüüs, Therese Rei, Birger Nerman and others at the festive gathering.
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Inauguration of Archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri

Title in Estonian: Peapiiskop Johannes Oskar Lauri ametisse pühitsemine

1964 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Festive gathering following the inauguration ceremony of the new archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri at Saint James's Church in Stockholm on November 29, 1964.

The new archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri is inaugurated on November 29, 1964. Bishop of Sweden Sven Danell, assistant dean Konrad Veem, head of the church choir Harri Kiisk, actor Edmar Kuus, Heinrich Mark, church minister and journalist Karl Laantee, dean of Uppsala Jakob Aunver, the new archbishop Johannes Oskar Lauri, Aadu Lüüs, Therese Rei, Birger Nerman and others are participating in the festive celebration.
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Johannes Oskae Lauri - 70

1961 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church's bible translation committee in Stockholm 1958

Original title: EELK piiblitõlke komisjon Stockholmis

1958 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Richard Koolmeister

Gathering of the bible translation committee of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockholm, family Koolmeister's home in Västerås.

Meeting of the bible translation committee of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church is held in Stockholm in July 28 - July 31, 1958 where among the participants are archbishop Johan Kõpp, bishop Johannes Oskar Lauri, linguist Johannes Aavik, philologist Ervin Roos, minister of religion and translator Endel Kõpp and priest Toomas Põld from Germany. Richard Koolmeister, the founder of the committee, also takes part. Evald Põder's family visits the home of Koolmeister's family in Västerås on August 3rd, 1958. Richard Koolmeister's wife Linda Alide and daughter Viivi.
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