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Kihnu poisid ning tüdrukud

2019 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director:
Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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Counterpoint

Original title (in Estonian): "Kontrapunkt"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

BA Film Arts II year student film “Counterpoint” is a story about a former violin player who, due to an accident is now in a wheelchair and unable to play.

“Counterpoint” is a story about a former violin player who, due to an accident is now in a wheelchair and unable to play. In order to help someone much weaker than himself, he has to take a huge step and conquer his inner fears.
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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Coach Driver Knocks Three Times

Original title: Kutsar koputab kolm korda

2010 | Feature film, Short | Director: Elo Selirand

A single mother races against time while trying to manage with supporting two children, working, dialy routine and herself when suddenly a mysterious Coach Driver knocks at her door.

Marju, a violinist living in a provincial town and mother of two, tries to face raising her children, everyday routine and inconsolable loneliness. As an instrumentalist playing in an orchestra, she has to work under the guidance of his ex-husband who is the conductor of the orchestra. Her life seems to come to a dead end. One morning, a stranger is standing on her doorstep, calling himself Coach Driver. Marju has to ask herself what can be done with her life.
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Artist

1986 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui

Portrait documentary by Heini Drui about Vladimir Sapozhnin, the state artist of Estonian SSR.

Portrait documentary about Vladimir Sapozhnin alias Boba, a state artist of Estonian SSR. A former wunderkind and multitalent who started to perform already when five years old, he is still in shape today, celebrating his 80th birthday and 75th anniversary of being on stage. The documentary brings the viewers to the artist's home; shows him dancing on his birthday party; and playing violin in Cafe Moskva, in Tallinn vital registration record office and in Viru variety club at a late night.
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Viies (5) vabariiklik noorte interpreetide konkurss

1976 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Kaljo Kiisk
Eugen Kapp

Eugen Kapp – State Artist of the Estonian SSR

1971 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Eino Tandre

Music documentary about composer Eugen Kapp.

Eugen Kapp was born into a famous dynasty of composer. He has written the first opera in the Estonian SSR, the first cantata for the post-war song celebration and became the state artist of Estonian SSR and USSR. Music written by Eugen Kapp is performed by Hendrik Krumm, Tiit Kuusik, Kaie Konrad, duo Anna Klas and Bruno Lukk, Matti Reimann and others. Peeter Hein is having a conversation with the composer.
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Väike kontsert II

1970 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Leida Levald
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In order to succeed

Original title: Et tuleks välja…

1969 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Vladimir Parvel

Documentary about the problems of organizing production and improving quality in Tallinn excavator factory.

Documentary compares excavator production in Tallinn excavator factory with the play of all instruments of a symphony orchestra. Similarly, all production parts must fit together in harmony and end up in a perfect result, just like a perfectly polished orchestral work. Rein Karemäe aims at finding out the reasons of the production problems while talking to the factory workers.
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