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location_onTallin, Estonian SSR, USSRpublicSU

Horse-Child in the Apples 2015

For Crazies Only 1991 star_border 4
A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.

That Lost Road 1991

Cross 1991
The film takes place in Estonia during the German occupation in the winter of 1943. In order not to serve in the fascist army, Ilmar tries to escape to Finland. His friend Peeter helps him, but this escape ends tragically...

Peldik 1991
A problem film about our toilet culture - dilapidated outhouses and dirty school lavatories.

Autumn 1990 star_border 5.8
The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli and Maali, arrive in Paunvere. At first, Kiir regards them as competitors, but then he establishes friendly relations with them. Kiir marries Juuli, but he is not indifferent to Maali either. The film also follows Kiir's efforts to get his own farm.

Handmaiden 1990
The family where Epp serves is preparing to receive important guests on whom the career of the head of the family depends. Everyone is busy preparing the gala dinner, and only the owner's son Eugen does not take any part in this. At night he suddenly becomes ill, and Epp is sent for help. On a rainy night, she spends a long time looking for a doctor, as a result of which she becomes seriously ill. And Eugen’s illness, as it turned out, was only the result of his suspiciousness...

Jackpot 1990
It is a political parody film against totalitarian system of violence, about the careless game of power that has been played with the world and peoples.

To Each His Own 1990
Estonia in a turbulent era of change. Citizen A, a modest, indecisive person, with great difficulty and inner fear fits into the changed realities of the world around him. And he constantly finds himself in various absurd situations.

Three Jolly Fellows 1990 star_border 7
Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff.

Regina 1990
Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inherits a house in a little town, an opportunity arises to change her life.

Sunday Only 1990
50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The younger one, Ilmar, a formerly capable artist, has just been released under an amnesty from a camp where he ended up for some youthful prank. Older brother Alex, by nature a more reserved person who prefers to find compromise solutions, is the complete opposite of Ilmar. The meeting of the brothers develops into a conflict, complicated by the fact that Ilmar got in touch with repeat offenders in the camp, and now they are threatening him with violence.

A Man Who Never Was 1990 star_border 3.2
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.

Awakening 1990 star_border 4.5
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.

Cogito, ergo sum 1990
Karl Peterson, an old farmer, living alone in his poor house in a neglected village of Uus-Kiislova, Põlva county, where his household once bloomed. Despite the war, deportations, collectivization, distrainment and other crimes agains humanity Karl never joined the collective farm. He was terrorized, abused and imprisoned but he remained true to himself.

The Flirt 1990
A heartfelt story about the borderlands of childhood, about a boy who is still a child, but who is touched by an inexplicable, barely discernible feeling of love. Ten-year-old boy Jaanus is in love with Eva, a girl a few years older than him, from whom he wants to buy a puppy. The puppy is like an unattainable dream, like a first love. Aare Tilga's debut film is based on Mart Kivastik's short story of the same name and was Tilga's diploma thesis at the Moscow Cinema Institute, supervised by Eldar Ryazanov.

Minek 1990
A person falls into a huge water reservoir and drowns. Before death, they have a vision of their past, of how they drowned a mouse. The film is based on the idea of the equality of all living beings and the repercussions of cruelty.

To Shura 1990
Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of the ash hill of the North-Eastern Estonian coal mine.

... and Women 1989
A documentary that tries to understand women. About how a hard-working Soviet woman may not achieve the so-called bonus points in sex life.

Doctor Stockmann 1989 star_border 2
Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that the facility is threatened by an infection caused by construction errors in the waterworks. The powerful mayor Peter Stockmann, the doctor's brother, has used his position and connections for commercial and political gain and has ignored the doctor's warnings. The upper class of the town initially supports the doctor's decision to reveal the truth, but the mayor changes due to pressure and personal interests. Dr. Stockmann is labeled an enemy of the people. He must choose whether to stick to his ideas, at the risk of his family, or surrender to demagoguery.

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Näkimadalad 1989
The viewer will be transported to the distant thirteenth century. At that time, the Swedes lived on the Estonian islands and, thanks to the royal charter, were not serfs. However, after the Twenty Years' War ended, the question of the living Swedes rose again, or rather their freedom. People were afraid to fall into serfdom. But by the will of fate, the letters written by the king fell into the hands of a Swede named Klemet. From that moment on, he had a goal - to get to the Russian Tsar, whom he would beg to confirm their privileges. Klemet and his friends set out on a dangerous, incredibly difficult and completely unpredictable journey...

Une-Mati lood 1977