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Betti Alver

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn (Ernst) Lillemets

Documentary film sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities - Betti Alver.

Enn Lillemets authored film about his close friend and soul mother Betti Alver. Through personal memories and Betti’s creative masterpieces, Lillemets sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities. Actress Saara Nüganen, and poets Viivi Luik, Eeva Park and Mats Traat accompany him in this film.
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Memories Denied

Original title: Tõrjutud mäletused

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Imbi Paju
Your name shall be Israel

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
Estonian Prison

Original title: Eesti vangla

2003 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The main subject of the history documentary is Patarei Prison - a unique architectural and historical building.

Tower, Bastille, Sing-Sing, Butyrka are all ominous buildings with rich history. The first Republic of Estonia that was established in February 1918 founded a central prison (that people started to call simply "Patarei") in the buildings of a former cannon battery of a sea fortress. During various eras both criminals and visionaries have been imprisoned here. Recollections of those who have been prisoners due to their worldview include the pieces of Estonian and European history in 20th century.
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Interview with Küllo Arjakas in Toronto

Original title: Küllo Arjakase intervjuu Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with Küllo Arjakas on the events taken place on January 13th, 1991 in Vilnius.

Küllo Arjakas spends a longer period of time in Canada and USA. He is being interviewed by a TV reporter, they discuss the events that took place on January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. The interviewer wonders why the conflict has increased, whether Estonian people are afraid of the situation and how Estonia will defend itself. Arjakas responds even three times to the question how Canada could help the Baltic states. After the interview the reporter and Küllo Arjakas talk about visiting Russia. Representative of Latvian press room faxes a special announcement to newspapers from Latvian National Federation in Canada.
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40 years since the March deportation

Original title: 40 aastat märtsiküüditamisest

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek

Linda Lippert, resident of Tartu, recalls of the March deportation that took place 40 years ago.

Linda Lippert, resident of Tartu, recalls of the March deportation that took place 40 years ago. Church minister Richard Võlli, former prisoner of Kolyma prison camp, starts to preach at the Tartu Cathedral. In his sermon, Võlli recalls of the thousands of innocent people who died due to suffering, hard work and hunger after deportation. He places flowers of commemoration for all of them. There is the list of deportees who have been sent out from their homeland during the era of Stalin. The voiceover says that the union of Estonian deportees is about to be founded, with the aim to ...
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Küüditatute mälestuspäev Viru-Jaagupis.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
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Minu Virumaa

1989 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Pihlak
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Mälestusmiiting Ülemiste jaamas.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
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