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Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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And the Estonians Became Happy

Original title: Ja eestlased said rõõmsaks

1990 | Documentary | Director: Heini Drui

Battle around the re-opening of the memorial column "Lembit" in Suure-Jaani, dedicated to the war of independence. The column has been created by Amandus Adamson.

Battle around the re-opening of the memorial column "Lembit" in Suure-Jaani, dedicated to the war of independence. The column has been created by Amandus Adamson. Contemporaries recall the demolishing of the statue in 1941 and 1949 as well as discovering the column "Lembit" again in a warehouse in 1950s. Representative of the Estonian Communist Party is against the statue in the meeting of restoration of the monument. The importance of heritage protection and the church when restoring the sculpture. Photographs about the festive opening of the memorial stone. The title of the film has been borrowed from the description of ...
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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

Title in Estonian: Surma hinda küsi surnutelt

1977 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

Historical film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is observing the destiny of the dissenters in the bourgeois Estonia after the coup in December 1924.

After the attempted Communist coup d'état in December 1924, Communists continue their underground action. One of the leaders, Anton Sommer is an intelligent Communist and a man of principle who is arrested and sent to military court. He remains silent in interrogation as he considers it dishonorable to protect himself from accusations. Authorities try to make Sommer plead guilty and admit the revolutionaries' loss, but for Sommer honour is more important that life. His fellow fighter Ester pays back for him. However, when looking in the eye of Sommer's wife (as traitor) and the mother of the their children she ...
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Lindpriid I osa

1971 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Vladimir Karasjov
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Partei liige

1970 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Valeria Anderson
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Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
Nõukogude Eesti

1963 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Eduard Eljas
Lenin is with us

Title in Estonian: Lenin on meiega

1948 | Documentary | Director:

Documentary footage dedicated to V. I. Lenin.

Documentary footage without sound and titles includes episodes about the pioneers' meeting with a veteran, paintings depicting V. I. Lenin, photocopies of historical documents and Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow.
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Johannes Lauristin

1941 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:
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