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Disco and Atomic War
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
Casts & Crew
Gerda Viira
Oskar Vuks
Toomas Pool
Jaan-Joosep Puusaag
Einar Kotka
Aleksandr Aug
Birgit Veemaa
Kiur Aarma
Jaak Kilmi
Alo Kõrve
Jaan Tootsen
Liina Vahtrik
Eduard Toman
Esko Salminen
Sakari Kiuru
Arvo Sildnik
Edward Lucas
Hagi Shein
Georgi G. Potchepstov
Voldemar Lindström
Nikolai Haug
Åke Blomqvist
Ami Aspelund
David Hasselhoff
Karl Vaino
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Panda Nikander
Ronald Reagan
Teija Sopanen
Urho Kekkonen
Väinö Purje
Yuri Andropov
Greta Garbo
Melvyn Douglas
Sylvia Kristel
Also Directed by Jaak Kilmi
Documentary about man's place in society based on life of Georg, Peeter, Arto.
An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
Underwater Flights is comprised of ten film short stories that depict events occurring between 1820 and 1940. This was a time when clever men invented flying machines, submarines started traveling underwater, warships were built in Tallinn, bombs were thrown from zeppelins and planes started to fly across oceans. These stories about wild times and creative people are told by film newsreels, private letters, intelligence reports and bedtime stories...
Three film segments.
"Revolution of Pigs" is an adventurous youth comedy, taking place in a Woodstock-like milieu. The main character is Tanel, a 15-year-old boy, who, taking part of a youth revolt against the system, finds himself and his love.
Is everything in life a matter of how you sell yourself? Can Evelin's motto "manipulate and be manipulated" lead everyone to happiness? And does the church really sell God?
As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of events which have their roots over four decades ago. In order to find herself and understand the game she was part of, Ieva sets out on a journey to the past, confronting family secrets, lies and betrayal.
Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish Cemetery), Ivars Seleckis (On Ķīpsala), Audrius Stonys (Riga Boats), Jaak Kilmi (Littering Prohibited!), Jon Bang Karlsen (Cats in Riga), Rainer Komers (Daugava Delta), and Bettina Henkel (Theatre Street 6).
Nighttime at the tram depot. A closed tram car, from which a young businessman who fell asleep on the tram finds himself waking up. However, he is not alone...