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Melchior the Apothecary

Original title: Apteeker Melchior

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

Melchior Wakenstede is a clever and curious apothecary who, in addition to healing the sick, solves murders that shake the town. In a medieval world, where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is waiting at the door, and temptation can poison even the most noble ...
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Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant.

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant. In the morning, the guard has fallen to death from a high tower and several more people lose their lives in suspicious accidents. Investigating these events, Melchior's paths cross with a prostitute, a priest, a foreign artist and a mad heretic. The clues take him to the Pirita Convent, which gloomy vaults hide a dangerous secret buried in oblivion. At the same time, Melchior is troubled by the question of why his beloved Keterlyn suddenly breaks ...
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All the Sins

Original title (in Finnish): Kaikki synnit

2019 | TV Serial, Elisa | Director: Mika Ronkainen

Crime thriller about complex relationships, small town prejudices and alternative lifestyles.

S1. Detective Lauri Räihä returns home after 10 years to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern town where he grew up. His marriage is in trouble and going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him. With partner Sanna Tervo he works to solve the case only to discover other truths about himself, his hometown, and whether one has the power to forgive all sins. S2. The year is 1999. Jussi Ritola, police officer in a small town in Northern Finland, starts to investigate the death of two of ...
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Carton Face

Original title in Estonian: Pappnägu

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Rauno Polman

Film student Rauno Polman's short film about the murder mystery in a village.

Police stations wobbly cleaner steals a solved murder file and police uniform to reopen the case and to uncover the true murderer of his dead father.
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Thorns of the Rose

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Laura Smolski

The short film "Roosi" talks about getting lost in the name of love.

Young girl is infatuated with a local policeman. In the name of love she is willing to sacrifice everyone and everything.
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The Woman Is to Blame

Original title in Estonian: "Naine on süüdi"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Sandra Kartau

After finishing one case, officer and his wife and secretary Leili Peterson begin to investigate a murder. Even the simplest piece of evidence would do for conviction. Leili finds out the motif of the murder, but does the murderer deserve death in turn? Only those who understand, know the answer.
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Lake Bodom

Original title: Bodom

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Taneli Mustonen

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls decide to rewrite history.

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, turns out not all of them are there to play... Tonight... it's girls against boys. Let the killing games begin.
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Evidence

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Krisjanis Leitis
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The Curse of Werewolf

Original title: Libahundi needus

2005 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

The first full-length feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet for the 100th anniversary of Estonian professional theatre. The film tells the story about staging the play "Werewolf" written by August Kitzberg in Tartu Vanemuise Theatre throughout the 20th century, while bringing together the present and the past and offering the characters to experience eternity.

Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist version of the play "Werewolf" by August Kitzberg. The theatre is haunted and the rehearsals seem to be cursed, artificial blood becomes real blood. The play won't be complete before the murder mystery is unsolved - and Liina is being taken back to the old theatre legends and intrigues of the past century.
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Peace for our homes

Title in Estonian: Rahu meie kodudele

1990 | Documentary | Director: Heli Speek

Documentary directed by Heli Speek about cleric Harald Meri and the murder story of his housemaid in April 1990.

Harald Meri (1917–1990) was the minister of Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, dean of Järva deanery and reverend in Türi. Harald Meri and his housemaid Valve Klein were missing on April 5th, 1990. Their bodies were later found in the territory of Toravere quarry. The double murder is still unresolved. The documentary is based on the story told by Harald Meri's daughter Meeli Meri and on observations of the activities of the murder investigation committee.
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