Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. Read More »
Tag Archives: Estonia
1944 (2015) Elmo Nüganen, Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla, Maiken Schmidt
In “1944” Director Elmo Nüganen portrays the real events on the Eastern Front in Estonia in 1944 Read More »
The Idiot (2011) Rainer Sarnet, Risto Kübar, Katariina Unt, Tambet Tuisk
Based on the Dostoyevsky novel of the same name The Idiot (Idioot) is an impressively stylised piece of work that takes on elements of the surreal Read More »
In The Crosswind (2014) Martti Helde, Einar Hillep, Ingrid Isotamm, Laura Peterson
“Risttuules” is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna. Read More »
Muukalainen / The Visitor (2008) J.-P. Valkeapää, Allan Bernard, Vitali Bobrov, Emilia Ikäheimo, Drama
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. Read More »
Tseka komissar Mirostsenko (1925) Paul Sehnert, Alfred Hindrea, Leoniide Jürisson, Mihkel Lepper, Drama
The Soviet Russia of 1920s. A group of Estonians, including young woman Agnes and her mother, Agnes’s friend engineer Karl Raudsepp and his fiancee Erna, are waiting for permission to return to Estonia. Read More »
Viimne reliikvia / The Last Relic (1969) Grigori Kromanov
A 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.
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Klass / The Class (2007) Ilmar Raag, Vallo Kirs, Pärt Uusberg, Lauri Pedaja
Kaspar and the class pushover Joosep are 16 and life in high school isn’t easy. Without meaning to, Kaspar defends Joosep against the bullying of his classmates, but every time Kaspar tries to him, it backfires, with the class taking it out on Joosep. Kaspar just wants his friends, his girl and his unassuming life back. Joosep wants to regain his dignity and the chance to switch to a high school far away. But their classmates are relentless, going further and further with each incident.
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The Poll Diaries / Poll (2010) Chris Kraus, Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother’s coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize – and what Oda luckily understands – is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family…
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