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  • Funeral Diaries
    Funeral Diaries

    Original title: Matusepäevikud

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

  • The Summer War
    The Summer War

    Original title of the film: Suvesõda

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

  • Vilniuse veretöö leinamiiting
    Vilniuse veretöö leinamiiting

    Eesti Kroonika nr 1, 5/7

    1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško

  • Oath of Life
    Oath of Life

    Title in Estonian: Eluvanne

    1978 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

    Documentary directed by Peep Puks about Anton Hansen Tammsaare, an Estonian literary classic.

  • A.H.Tammsaare II
    A.H.Tammsaare II

    1972 | Other categories, Commissioned, Educational | Director: Peep Puks

  • The Split Sky
    The Split Sky

    Title in Estonian: Lõhestatud taevas

    1971 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

    Documentary about three Estonians who studied in aviation schools in the Russian Empire and became aviators in the Red Army.

  • Vabastuse tund
    Vabastuse tund

    1969 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1957 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1945 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: E. Ballod

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1944 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: E. Ballod

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