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Baltic uprising – Latvia Riga barricades

Title in Estonian: CBC News teleintervjuu: Läti jaanuarisündmuste 1991 vastukaja

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Dr Guntis Silinš, Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, tells in the TV interview given to CBC News about the fight for independence in Latvia and Gorbachev's politics in the Baltic States.

Dr Guntis Silinš, Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, tells in the TV interview given to CBC News about the fight for independence in Latvia and Gorbachev's politics in the Baltic States. Dr Silinš explains the era of awakening in the Baltic States at the second half of 1980s in his interview given in Riga, January 1991. Late 1980s was the time when Gorbachev's policy of "demokratizatsiya" gave the Baltic people new hopes for future. Recent violents events by Soviet authorities in Lithuania and Latvia disappointed people in Gorbachev's policy and caused a setback in the process of ...
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Interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter is in Riga during the barricades

Original title: Intervjuu Kanada läti emaga, kelle tütar on Riias barrikaadidel

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

TV interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter happened to in the middle of the tragic events in Riga while going on a trip to Latvia.

Latvian mother contacts her daughter, who has taken a trip to Latvia, on the phone. The daughter happens to get into the middle of the tragic events in central Riga where the Soviet OMON commando started to shoot the unarmed protesters on barricades on January 20, 1991. Among the protesters was also her daughter. Naturally, mother's worry for her daughter's safety was extremely big, fortunately she made it. Similarly to the majority of expatriate Latvians in Canada, mother is passionately supporting the restoration of independence of the Republic of Latvia. Photographs of the mother and daughter.
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Latvian meeting at the time of barricades in Riga 1991

Title in Estonian: 6. Kanada lätlaste koosolek Riia jaanuarisündmuste 1991 ajal

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada have gathered in a hall in Toronto in order to discuss the political situation in Latvia, namely the dramatic events in Riga in January 1991.

Members of the community of expatriate Latvians in Canada have gathered in the hall in Toronto where they discuss the political situation in Latvia after the armed attack by OMON (Soviet special forces) towards demontrating civilians in central Riga on January 20, 1991. Speeches by the representatives of the Latvian community. The government of Canada is asked to react to the antidemocratic attacks in the Baltic states with a protest and express support towards the fight for independence. Speech is held by Valdis Liepins who represents the Latvian National Federation in Canada. Phone call is made to Riga where the ...
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Phone interview with a girl who is at the barricades in Riga in January 1991

Title in Estonian: Telefoniintervjuu Riias barrikaadidele sattunud Kanada läti neiuga

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvian young woman in Canada who happened to be at the barricades in Riga during the tragic events on January 20, 1991. In a phone interview she tells the CBC reporter about the dramatic events in central Riga.

Reporter from the TV channel CBC News is holding a phone interview with an expatriate Latvian girl from Canada who happened to be in the line of fire in central Riga on January 20, 1991. The girl tells the interviewer how she joined the peaceful civilians at the barricades and when the OMON special forces started to shoot people then people tried to run away and hide somewhere. Fortunately, the girl was lucky to hide behind the trees and to survive. At the same time, lots of people got killed and injured. Cinematographer Andris Slapinš was also among the victims ...
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Riigivanem I

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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Stories of the Livonians

Original title: Liivlaste lood

1991 | Documentary | Director: Enn Säde

This is not an ethnographic film about a Finno-Ugric tribe, but a documentary about the decline of a nation.

Livonians are among the smallest Finno-Ugric nations still existing today. They are the closest kindred people to Estonians and Livonian language is the closest one to Estonian language. Currently, there are only a few dozens of speakers of Livonian language left and even for them Livonian is not their native tongue. However, there are about 200 people who consider themselves as Livonians; most of them live in Riga, Ventspils and Kūolka, Latvia. Livonian coast in Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian) once had twelve villages inhabited by Livonian people - now there is no one left there who would fluently speak the ...
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Balti tee.. Balti ketist 23.augustil 1989.a.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ants Vill
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Eesti merikotkas

1989 | Popular Sciences | Director: Peep Puks, Arvo Vilu

This is survey of the distribution, history of protection and presentday critical situation of the white-tailed eagle as a engarded species. The film observes the life of a couple of white-tails from their choice of nestling site to the depature of the young in a unique and tragic illustration to natural history.
The Baltic Way

Title in Estonian: Balti tee

1989 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm

On August 23, 1989 the Baltic Way was formed – a 600-kilometre-long human chain from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius.

On the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (August 23rd, 1989), a non-violent protest action was organized called the Baltic Way that aimed at directing the world's attention to the attempts of the Baltic States to regain independence. Around two million people held hands in a 600-kilometres-long human chain through the Baltic states, while expressing their unity for becoming free countries. Documentary reportage about the events of that time in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Troubles in Photography

Title in Estonian: Fotomure

1989 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Observations by Peeter Tooming about the history and present situation of Estonian history.

Photography exhibition "My life in pictures" held in Kiek in de Kök. The author of the exhibition Vaho Eier works as a bus driver in Stockholm already for the past 30 years. Photography as a chronicle. Browsing through an album. The old town of Tallinn. Exposition in Raemuuseum: photographs by Heinrich Tiidermann, the Parikas brothers, Johannes Mülberg. Valter Lemberg with his wife Evi who recalls that right after getting married in 1924 they started to make art photography together with her husband. Due to the war they continued the work abroad. The panorama of Gothenburg. Photography exhibition is opened at ...
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