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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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See You In Chechnya

Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

If you go to war, war will come home with you.

September 1999. For Alex, as for the rest of Georgians, war in Chechnya seemed to be far away, seen only on the screens of Russian media. In fact it was just behind the Caucasus Mountains. He'd never imagine going there, but he did. He followed her, the French photographer he had met just a few days before at the fashion show. Alex discovers the world of War Reporters and wants to become one of them, but he doesn't succeed. He keeps in connected to war through his friend, practising war reporters and observes what war does to them for 15 ...
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The Mystery of the Kaleva

Original title: Kaleva müsteerium

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sigrid Reede

Documentary about the Finnish passenger aircraft OH-ALL Kaleva that was shot down by two Soviet bombers above the Baltic Sea in 1940.

“The Mystery of the Kaleva” is a documentary about a Finnish passenger plane OH-ALL Kaleva that was shot down during peacetime in 1940 by two Soviet bombers. Nine people from six countries were killed. Toivo Kallas, a contemporary historian and a professional architect, has been investigating this politically controversial story about OH-ALL Kaleva since 2002. Why was the plane shot down during peacetime? What documents, conspiracies or secrets were hidden on that plane? Toivo Kallas has gone through archive materials from Russia, Finland, Sweden and Estonia and collaborating with many people in finding the truth. Fascinating plane wreck searches are combined with interviews ...
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Vaba mees Priit Vesilind

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks
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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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Esto 1976

Title in Estonian: Esto 1976

1977 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The second international Estonian Days held in Baltimore in 1976. Washington, New York City, procession of ESTO, opening and the events. 8th Estonian General Song Celebration in Gothenburg, 1977.

Expatriate Estonians in Sweden fly to Baltimore. Takeoff, view of the clouds. The special ESTO Freedom Train rides from Baltimore to Washington. Procession from the train station to the Capitol Building of the United States where speeches are held, protesting against the Soviet power in Estonia. Estonians are greeted by John Glenn Beall, the Senator of Maryland State. Afterwards a wreath of the Republic of Estonia is placed on the memorial column for the Unknown Soldier at Arlington cemetery. General Consul Ernst Jaakson places the wreath to the monument, accompanied by the military ceremony. Return trip on a train, landscape ...
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Traveling Around the World 1966

Title in Estonian: Reis ümber maailma 1966

1966 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The trip around the world in 1966 includes Kolkata in India, Bangkok in Thailand, Hongkong, Taiwan, South-Korea, Tokyo, Hawaii, cities in USA and Montreal in Canada.

The trip around the world takes the married couple, the Horm family, to Asian countries. Busy street life in Kolkata city, India – Victoria memorial, the building of the High Court, Howrah Bridge. Visiting the famous Parshwanath Temple. People go to the river in order to ride the boat. Local people wash themselves and their laundry in the river. Kalighat Kali temple is on the riverbank. Magnificent view from the opposite side to the temple complex and people dipping themselves into the river. The city street – a wandering cow and the Hindus asleep on the pavement. Hovels of the ...
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United States of America, Canada

Title in Estonian: Ameerika Ühendriigid, Kanada

1965 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Estonians in Sweden visit Washington in 1965.

Expatriate Estonians arrive at Washington by plane. They are flying above the main building of the Ministry of Defence of USA in Pentagon, located near Washington. Arvo Horm with Birger Nerman and other expatriate Estonians near the Capitol Hill. Views of Washington D.C. Visiting Arlington National Cemetery. Official memorial event is held in the cemetery - military servicemen bring wreaths to the eternal flame, surrounded by a small fence. There are lots of people at the event. The journey back goes in parallel with the River Potomac that divides Arlington county and the capital. Visiting the monument of Ukranian poet ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Igor Jeltsov