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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 Sound of the Conductor

Original title: Dirigendi kõla

2007 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa, Helle Karis

Portrait documentary about Eri Klas, a legendary Estonian musician, through his creative and private life.

Eri Klas is inspired by the feeling of joy in his life - joy for his work, friends, colleagues, but most of all - for his family and homeland. See rõõm on kaasakiskuv ja ammendamatu, hoolimata sellest, et tema saatus pole olnud pilvitu. Ajaloo käik ja isiklikud kaotused, töötempo ja rahvusvaheline tuntus võivad inimese sisemises muusikas tekitada ebakõlasid. Eri Klasi kõla on jäänud puhtaks.
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Estonian Constitution Referendum in Toronto in 1992

Original title: Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse rahvahääletus Toronto Eesti Majas

1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Referendum of the new constitution of the Republic of Estonia held in Toronto Estonian house on June 28, 1992.

Referendum about changing the constitution takes place in Toronto Estonian House. Organizers of election behind the desks, Laas Leivat being among them. Actress and actor Oudi and Harry Lillioja voting. A man wearing a hat observes that the rules of procedure will be adhered. Ilmar Heinsoo, the honorary consul general of the Republic of Estonia is talking to the organizers. More people are arriving. Officials are checking personal data, consulting people with filling in documents, and observing the election procedures. The hall is filled with lively speech. Formerly valid ID cards are checked. Johannes Vihma and Vello Hubel are talking ...
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RAM at Church

Original title: RAM kirikus

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Estonian National Male Choir performs at the religious service in Toronto church in the spring of 1989, before the Easter Sunday.

In the spring of 1989, the State Academic Male Choir has for the first time the opportunity to visit expatriate Estonians in Canada. The male choir takes part in the religious concert on March 18 and at the church service in St. Andrew's Church in Toronto. The singers gather to the podium next to the altar, the national flag is waving. The audience takes seats in the hall. Church song is accompanied by the organist, people are singing along, members of the male choir open their songbooks and also sing. Karl Raudsepp, bishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, by ...
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Family 47

Original title: Perekond 47

1978 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn and Helga Nõu's trip to Canada and to the United States of America - Kotkajärve Forest University and Washington.

Enn and Helga Nõu's trip to Canada and to the United States of America in 1978. Meeting lots of expatriate Estonians in Kotkajärve Forest University. Open-air lectures. Heino Susi is speaking, among the audience there are poetess Valli Naelapea, artist Peeter Sepp, Vello Soots. Helga Nõu's lecture. A ravenous chipmunk is eating on the summer cottage's balcony. Among others there is Valev Uibopuu's daughter Merike Kammar-Kerner on the mooring by the lake. Scoutmaster Heino Jõel is visiting. Play rehearsal on the meadow. Vello Soots, Ilse Lehiste, Taavo Virkhaus, Olav Lille with his wife, Urve Auksi, Rein Taagepera and Olaf Kopvillem ...
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Celebration of the National Flag of Estonia, World Camp in Kotkajärve

Original title: Sinimustvalge lipu juubeli tähistamine, maailmalaager Kotkajärvel

1962 | Amateur films | Director:

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the national flag of Estonia with the ceremony, the world camp of scouts and guides in Kotkajärve, recordings from 1958-1962.

The ceremony to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the national flag of Estonia on June 21st and the summer camp in Lättemäe in 1959. Folk dancers of the Estonian society in Montreal are performing. The annual meeting of Estonian scouts and guides and another event in 1959, taking place in Lättemäe and the hall of St. John's Church in Montreal. The masquerade of the young scouts and guides of Montreal in the church hall. Exhibition of artists Abel Lee, Ervin Milvek and Osvald Timmas in the hall of St. John's Church in Montreal. Concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ...
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Church Day in Skansen, Stockholm on May 28, 1961

Title in Estonian: Kirikupäev Stockholmis Skansenis 28. mail 1961

1961 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:
National Flag of Estonia - 75

Title in Estonian: Eesti lipp - 75

1959 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: