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A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.
A film about Russians living in Estonia. Some of them have come to Estonia only a few years ago, while the ancestors of others have lived here for generations. Estonia has become their homeland. What do Russians – intelligentsia and workers, old and young, atheists and believers – really think about life in Estonia in the early 1990s?
Film portrait of actor Endel Pärn (1914-1990). Pärn has said that theatre is a very simple thing. "You just have to learn the words by heart, then face the audience and say them out loud. And you don’t need to look at the clock. You can see from the audience’s faces when it’s time to stop."
A chronicle of the 600 km human chain through the three Baltic states on the 23rd of August, 1989.
Arabella 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?
The daily life of Tallinn's professional firefighters. Firefighters waiting for a call at the depot, the dispatcher transmitting the call and the men working on the fire, including professional firefighter Mati Nuude.
We don't have high mountains or dark valleys, so the forest has become a safe haven from invaders, diseases or other people. For many, the forest is a source of income, for others something like a sanctuary or rather a clinic. Twice in history it has supported the national currency. The most diverse people think about the forest in this film; their perceptions are opposite, but for everyone the forest is something very important.
In the final weeks of the existence of the Soviet empire, a number of unusual films were released. In this wry Estonian comedy, a woman with an unusual talent for mimicry which eventually earns her a career on the radio between WWII and the Russian resettlement of that country (with a corresponding deportation of millions of Estonians to Siberia). In an absurd fashion, her self-generate sound effects help her get out of all sorts of scrapes with the authorities. When those fail, her incredible nonchalance succeeds. By the end of the film, it becomes clear that she has bestowed her inimitable imitative gift on her newborn son, as well.