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When I Start ... Part One

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...I

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati Viiul

Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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Travelling Potters

Original title: Potisetod tulevad

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary about the cheerful journey of potters on horse carriages along the Seto region in Estonia to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu, South Estonia.

Cheerful and fast-paced documentary about the potters from Seto region having a jolly journey on horse carriages through Setoland to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu. In summers of 2002 and 2003, boys loaded the horse carriages full of Seto pottery and rode with the cartload from village to village as ancient Seto people. They did so in order to sell or exchange pottery items for food, accommodation and clothes, to acknowledge the presence of Seto people and look for the traces of former Seto potters as well as to collect the folklore and traditions.
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Pillikeel

1983 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Georg Jegorov
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Rahvakunstimeistrid

1979 | Documentary | Director: Enn Putnik
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Rahvakunstimeistrite ülevaatenäitus

1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
Elavad mustrid

1970 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Andres Sööt
Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
It's me who makes the beautiful things

Title in Estonian: Ma ise ilutegija

1966 | Documentary | Director: Endel Nõmberg

Ethnographic documentary about Estonian folk art.

Ethnographic documentary about Estonian folk art emphasizes the artistic practice of our forefathers and foremothers, expressed in clothes, furniture, construction of barn houses and various everyday tools and utensils. Beautiful patterns keep living on also in the artistic practices of contemporary artists and these are inherited to the next generations. The filmmakers visit the Estonian Open Air Museum and observe making of metal art and ceramic pieces.
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Kristjan Raud

1965 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Virve Aruoja
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Nõukogude Eesti

1964 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
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