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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Mister Wall and the Wind

Original title: Jüri - see mulk, ehk mis tuul müürile...

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn Säde

Documentary by Enn Säde portrays Jüri Müür - an important filmmaker in Estonian culture whose films are among the best ones in Estonian national filmography.

Enn Säde's documentary about Jüri Müür who was his colleague and friend, an Estonian filmmaker (1929-1984). When Jüri was fifteen he joined the support service of German air force; during the last days of war he travelled to Germany, France and Africa. In 1946 he returned home and soon escaped to Karjala, Finland from KGB. He got acquainted with film during his studies in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. In a way, Jüri Müür became the icebreaker of the birth of Estonian national film in 1960s. He made five full-length feature films, a couple of dozens documentaries, wrote ...
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Pro Patria ad Astra

2002 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils

Documentary about the story of founding the Estonian air force in the War of Independence and its development between the two war worlds.

Documentary about the history of Estonian aviation tells about the years 1918-1940. The title of the film – Pro Patria ad Astra – is the Latin motto of Estonian Aviation School "to the stars for one's fatherland". With the help of documents, photographs and rare film footage the documentary gives an overview about the aviation since the War of Independence to the destruction of aviation by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The documentary shows reserve pilot Hans Luik; Remi Milk, an aviation officer back at the era of the first Republic of Estonia and other people related to the field ...
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Nõukogude Rahufond

1982 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Julia Guteva
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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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Film Chronicle by Valter Kotsar

Title in Estonian: Valter Kotsari kroonika

1972 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Film chronicle about the culture life of expatriate Estonians in Sweden in 1967-1972.

Swedish armed forces organize the annual aviation day in Sweden. Demonstration of various aircraft, acrobatic flights, parachute jumps, helicopters at rescue work. Air exercises of fighter aircraft of Swedish air force. Domestic atmosphere with a parrot. In the museum of aviation and space technology. Flooding river in the city in spring. Enjoying animals and beautiful views of nature in the animal park, riding the cable railway. Trip to Great Britain - the collection of buildings around a castle, city streets. Political protest march organised by Röd Front in Sweden. Social gathering.
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Eesti NSV vabastamise 25.aastapäev

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Väejuht

1969 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vladimir Karasjov