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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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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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Dialoog

Original title: Dialoog

1986 | Other categories, Commissioned, Educational | Director: Heli Speek
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Kirovi nim kalurikolhoosi lastesanatooriumis

1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
Tootmiskoondise Eesti Põlevkivi A.Bõkovski nim pioneerilaager

1977 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart
Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:
ELKNÜ kongressi auks Uued automaatkudumisteljed Balti Manufaktuuris

1951 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Arnold Juhkum
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Nõukogude Eesti

1950 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Arnold Juhkum
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