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The Missile

Original title (in Finnish): Ohjus

2024 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Miia Tervo

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina (28), a single mother drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border. A drama-comedy of personal and national borders and boundaries

Finnish Lapland, 1984. Niina, is a single mother of two children . After an absurd jumble of events, Niina ends up as an archiver in the local newspaper Niina hears an enormous bang from the sky – the radio says that the Soviet Union has shot a missile across the Finnish border to Inari: soon the whole village is filled with reporters from all over the world. Niina knows the area and its people, so she is drawn into the investigation of the missile incident and the threat of nuclear war. Niina meets Kai, a fighter pilot who knows ...
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Mihkel

Original title (in Icelandic): Undir Halastjörnu

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ari Alexander Magnusson

In the film, Mihkel and Veera dream of moving from their home in Estonia to Iceland. Events take an unexpected turn and Mihkel dies a painful death in Iceland, betrayed by his oldest friend, Igor.

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an  Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
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Uninvited Guests

Original title: Kutsumata külalised

1959 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Igor Jeltsov

The propagandistic thriller is based on true events, telling about Estonian expatriates hired by the Western Secret Service and sent back to the Soviet Estonia in 1950s in order to carry out diversionary activities.

Four Estonians who have escaped to Sweden during the war return to the Soviet Estonia in 1950s. The four diversionists are hired by the Western Secret Service. Difficulties arise when they cross the border with an injured companion - the rest of three have to decide what to do next. Soviet reality is not something they have expected and cooperation with the local people won't be any success. The agents must risk their conscience, their families and lives. National Security will launch its counter operation full of exciting turns.
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Yachts at Sea

Original title: Jahid merel

1955 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Jegorov

The film, directed by Mikhail Yegorov who worked in several film studios in the Soviet Union, is about the uncovering the plot of a hostile foreign espionage in a small town by the sea where two rivaling yacht clubs operate.

Not only plenty of joy, energy and love can be found under white sails but also betrayal and intrigues. After the war, young yachtsmen from the coastal town deal with daily work, training and competitions without knowing about the downside. Suddenly, mysterious events start to happen, testing the vigilance, ideological and moral beliefs of the local people.
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The Missile

Mihkel

Nõukogude Eesti

Uninvited Guests

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