My favorite Estonian feature films
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- 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.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsTaavi EelmaaRavshana KurkovaTiina TauraiteA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
- 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.
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsVallo KirsPärt UusbergLauri PedajaAn average Estonian high-schooler decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
- DirectorTanel ToomStarsPriit LoogEster KuntuPriit VõigemastAndres settles in a new farm. With rose-tinted lenses, he sets out to transform the farm into a prosperous paradise - all he needs is a healthy harvest, cooperative neighbors and a son. But, life turns out to be cruel and treacherous.
- DirectorVallo ToomlaStarsMirtel PohlaPriit VõigemastMari AbelIntent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband - a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.
- DirectorLeida LaiusArvo IhoStarsMonika JärvHendrik Toompere Jr.Tauri TallermaaA sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- DirectorRainer SarnetStarsRisto KübarKatariina UntTambet TuiskA story of a man, whose sincerity becomes a great weapon in a cynical world.
- 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.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsLauri LagleJaanika ArumLaura Peterson-AardamThe story of a promising, young man with exciting career opportunities and looming marital bliss.
- DirectorVeljo KäsperStarsJüri JärvetHerta ElvisteInes Aru
- 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.
- DirectorRainer SarnetStarsRea LestJörgen LiikArvo KukumägiIn a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsJuhan UlfsakMirtel PohlaEva KolditsA small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu.
- DirectorLembit UlfsakStarsTõnu KarkMaria KlenskajaKaie MihkelsonFive people who have recently reached their middle-ages are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. But isn't it just weariness of life that bothers the people whose life has gone into a deep routine ? The somber-funny road movie gives a good review of life, people and daily problems in Estonia in the end of the Soviet period.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsJüri JärvetVaclovas BledisValeriy NosikA Gestapo officer must find an enemy agent from the asylum.
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsUrsula RataseppMait MalmstenLeila SäälikKertu s life is totally spoiled by an overbearing father, until she opens her heart to an unlikely dream lover.
- 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.
- DirectorMart KivastikStarsMait MalmstenTimotheus SammulHarriet ToompereWith his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.
- 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.
- DirectorMoonika SiimetsStarsHelena Maria ReisnerTambet TuiskYuliya AugIn 1950 the Soviets are trying to crush a budding resistance movement in the countryside of Estonia. A girl doesn't understand why her mother was arrested or why her father was upset when she cheered on the young pioneers as they marched.
- DirectorAndres KõpperArun TammStarsPriit LoogOtt LeplandHasan SteinbergAt an ever-accelerating pace, this thriller / dark comedy tells the story of 8 very different groups whose paths cross in the space of 24 hours. We meet a wide range of characters - from spoiled rich brats to real bottom-feeding criminal scum, and everyone in-between. In the best traditions of Commedia dell'arte, the characters each have easily recognizable roles - although there are a few twists to throw the audience off and keep things fresh. The story revolves around a few odd coincidences and a ****load of bad decisions, which all result in a really messed-up Friday. It starts out innocently enough with jokes, fun and a bit of alcohol, but given the level of intellectual capacity in our leading characters, you can see the train wreck coming. And when some drugged out punks - who have a rather tenuous relationship with reality during best of days - go all Clockwork Orange on an opera loving cankerous old man, it can only end up in tears (and blood, guts and bit of rather literal toilet humour as well).
- DirectorTõnis KaskStarsKaljo KiiskRaivo TrassKaie Mihkelson
- 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.
- DirectorToomas HussarStarsRaivo E. TammElina ReinoldJuhan UlfsakA journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife.
- DirectorTriin RuumetStarsHendrik Toompere Jr. Jr.Kait KallKristjan LüüsA young man trying to make sense of the world in the summer heat of late nineties Estonia.
- DirectorRené VilbreStarsRasmus KaljujärvDoris TislarMarilyn JurmanA 17-year-old boy becomes a drug dealer and the decision that draws him into causes turbulent events he can't control.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorLauri LagleStarsMirtel PohlaMargus PrangelJarmo RehaTwo romantics wonder if their perfect life has become predictable. They take chances to find excitement.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsRea LestReimo SagorKaido VeermäeFilm with three parts, two characters and one obsession: to prevent the past from taking over.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsPääru OjaLaura BirnTommi KorpelaA struggling mine owner supplies his workers with drugs so they'll forget a tough existence. Nearby a small community of reindeer breeders also struggles.This critique of capitalism unfolds against a Western like Lapland landscape.
- 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.
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorLeida LaiusStarsElle KullLembit UlfsakVelda OtsusWriter Veera Saar' s book Ukuaru based movie. Estonian womans drams in their life.
- DirectorSulev NõmmikStarsErvin AbelLia LaatsHelmut VaagOne lovely day a young man, a former ballet dancer, suddenly finds himself on a pension and begins searching for a new place in life. Fate brings him together with a rather mischievous young girl for whom her mother has been trying to find a tutor. Many exciting events begin to take place.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsRea LestEvald AavikAndrus AlbrechtThe film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.
- DirectorKaljo KiiskStarsJüri KrjukovJaan RekkorArvo KukumägiA true but strongly subjective story about the leading communist Viktor Kingissepp and his hopeless fight in the 1920-s Estonian Respublic. Later, during the Soviet regime Kingissepp was made a hero and martyr.
- DirectorArko OkkStarsAndrus VaarikPiret KaldaJaan TätteSurprised by rain and sudden darkness Laura and Roland, a young couple hitch-hiking on an empty road, decide to seek shelter at a nearby country house. Osvald, the owner, seems to know the deeper meaning of their unexpected visit. His strange behaviour leads to an equally strange offer: Osvald wants to buy Roland's wife. Laura and Roland start to play along, only to discover that their host is not kidding.