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Eesti päevalehe kollektsioon / Kokku 45 filmi
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- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsAleksandr GoloborodkoIgrida AndrinaElza RadzinaA medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsArno LiiverRiina HeinAare LaanemetsSemi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s.
- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsUldis PucitisJüri JärvetLembit PetersonPolice gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
- DirectorMati PõldreStarsRain SimmulLiis TappoÜlle KaljusteThe life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter of the 1930s and the 1940s, the political changes of his land and his life after war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.
- DirectorLeida LaiusStarsJüri JärvetElle EhaAnts LauterA baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to mansion time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsArvo KukumägiTõnu KarkKalju KomissarovIn post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a travelling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career? He starts ignoring the party assignments and gets involved with the local village life and the local pioneer activist, a young woman named Liina. Nobody wants to sow before the time is right and Kukemeri gets tangled in the web of white lies to his bosses. But no one can keep anything secret from the Communist party for long.
- DirectorHelle KarisStarsEgert SollAnna-Liisa KurveÜlari KirsipuuA brother and sister called Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag, who uses the two kids as slave labor - Kusti is put to work around the farm, while Iti looks after the hag's mischievous son, whom she names Bumpy due to the horn-like bumps on his head. When a chance to escape arises, the two kids take Bumpy with them. But how will a wild forest rascal like Bumpy adjust to life with Iti and Kusti's family?
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsKatri HormaMari SimmTõnu KilgasA young Estonian voice actress' life from the turbulent 1930's to the devastating March deportation of 1949.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskYuli KunStarsTerje LuikRein ArenPeeter KardVaike arrives at the racetrack where the bikes are already racing at full speed. She gets involved in adventures while getting acquainted with Raivo, successful biker and womanizer, and Heino, another big league biker. Her twin sister Maret will help her with this complicated situation.
- DirectorArvo IhoStarsRain SimmulDinara DrukarovaIlyana PavlovaA young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.
- DirectorSulev NõmmikStarsLia LaatsErvin AbelRenate KarhuOn a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors.
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsHeino MandriTarvo-Hanno VarresLennart MändThe movie travels through the XX-th century by monitoring a steam-boiler. We see life, agricultural work and people at different times. We see history of Estonia. The language spoken is an old South Estonian dialect.
- DirectorTheodor LutsStarsArnold VainoJuhan NõmmikRuut TarmoThe film depicts the adventures of three students who enlist in the war when their small country is invaded by the Russian Bolshevists during the Estonian war of independence (1918-1920).
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsTõnu KarkViire ValdmaPaul PoomThe story is about an Estonian Don Juan, who actually is a writer, who leaves home in spring and is brought home again in autumn, by his wife.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsAare LaanemetsRiina HeinMargus LepaCharacters familiar from "Kevade" are now in their 20s. In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsEnn KraamKersti GernAda LundverThe events take place in Estonia in a summer in the 1960s. The Boy and the Girl want to go from mainland Estonia to the island of Saaremaa, but they do not have any money to buy the ticket to the ferry. They manage to hide themselves into a lorry that carries hay. Because they are smoking while they are on the lorry, a fire breaks out. The problem is, that the ferry in the middle of the sea.
- DirectorLeida LaiusStarsElle KullLembit UlfsakVelda OtsusWriter Veera Saar' s book Ukuaru based movie. Estonian womans drams in their life.
- DirectorGerbert RappaportStarsGeorg OtsAleksander RandviirValentine TernAbout forming first collective-farms in Estonia in 1940-s and class-fight in the countryside. Starring unforgettable opera singer Georg Ots. A pretty good example of a Soviet propaganda film. No cinematographic value.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsJüri JärvetVaclovas BledisValeriy NosikA Gestapo officer must find an enemy agent from the asylum.
- DirectorHardi VolmerStarsEpp EespäevErik RuusJaan TätteTowards the end of the 1920s the Finnish goverment introduced a twelve year long ban on alcohol. This resulted in very lively and profitable spirit smuggling from Estonia to Finland. This was risky business, where human life was of little worth. Tulivesi is a film set in this time. Eerik, a young man, does his best to make money out from the Finnish ban on spirits. His dream is to buy a boat with the money he makes. He is confronted by the honest Aleks, the new head of customs at the border checkpoint. Aleks is deadly serious about stopping the spirit smuggling.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsEvald AavikMait MerekülskiÜlle TomingQuiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.
- DirectorLeida LaiusStarsKaie MihkelsonLembit PetersonAnts Eskola
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsRain TolkTaavi EelmaaJuhan UlfsakA film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.
- DirectorSulev NõmmikStarsAnts LauterEndel PärnLeo NormetA group of sleepless nerds should be taken into sanitarium for hard-therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. Suddenly turns out that the nurses have kidnapped the men and are about to give them the only useful medicine they need - fresh air and work. But the patients decide to disobey. There's only one solution - to escape. The film is absolute cult in Estonia.
- DirectorJüri MüürStarsRudolf AllabertHeino RaudsikLeonhard MerzinThe story of the war film is about paths of the Estonian Shooting Corps (formed by the Red Army) during the WW-2 and how the fight forms an usual man to a loyal soldier. Ideologic aspects of the movie are more hidden than in ordinary Soviet war films but they're still existing.
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsInga-Kai Puskar-PolonskiLembit PetersonUrmas KibuspuuArabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a weird stranger is saved from the sea who will be the only friend of Arabella. At the same time a rival pirate called Raudpats plans to kidnap the girl. Will she be safe and can she ever live a normal life ?
- DirectorLeida LaiusArvo IhoStarsMonika JärvHendrik Toompere Jr.Tauri TallermaaA sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.
- DirectorMark SoosaarStarsEvald AavikKersti KreismannHäli SaarmThe Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not the peaceful holiday. The manor house has been pillaged during the peasant's revolt. The air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavoring towards freedom and equality and alarmed by the violence of the revolution. He has not taken part in pillaging the manor house, so he should be found guilty. Nevertheless, Laipmann is captured after being falsely accused and he is ready for the worst. One more time he has to make a choice and now he is not having any doubts. Based on real events, "Christmas in Vigala" is the story of the evolution of consciousness and small revolutionary upheavals.
- DirectorOlav NeulandStarsRudolf AllabertNelli TaarArvo IhoA speechless stranger comes to a poor family tearing by partisan's and government's interests.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsPriit VõigemastIndrek SammulHele KõrveThis movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).