Wikman's Boys is a 1994-year drama serial about the Wikman Private Gymnasium students from 1937 till their mobilization in 1944. The series is based on a 1988 novel Wikmani poisid by Jaan Kross.
In this timely exploration of food waste, we are asked to consider the social and economic ramifications of giving perishables a second chance. In Estonia, a group of intrepid mothers make covert nighttime pilgrimages to supermarket dumpsters and then stock local street pantries, until someone decides to meddle with their access.
In the middle of the 19th century, A. T. von Middendorff led an expedition to the northernmost place of the Eurasian continent, the Taimyr Peninsula. 160 years later, Middendorff's journey was re-traced by a team of Estonian scientists.
Debut director's work of Andres St. A story about the southernmost Estonian island of Ruhnu, about its 181 inhabitants, most of them fishermen, about the church of St.Magdaleni - the oldest wooden building in Estonia. In 1965, in the year of the film's creation, regular air communication was opened between the island and the mainland.
On the small island of Kihnu off the western coast of Estonia people have their own colorful culture and traditions. Mark Soosaar investigates trough the eye of a camera how the generations turn and pass but the people and the culture still stay the same.
Kihnu Woman (Kihnu naine, 1974), directed by Mark Soosaar, earned rather widespread recognition for its vivid color schemes ...
The sequel to the 'the waterfowl people'. the author interprets the kiship,
linguistic and cultural relationships of the finno-ugric peoples. finns,
vepsians, votes, setos, erzya-mordvinians, mansi, hungarians, sami, nganasans,
and estonians appear in the film. the film was shot in 1977 on location in
northern finland, sapmi, vepsia, votia, mordovia, khantia-mansia, hungary,
th...
Early in the summer of 1977 a musical fiction film called "The Wonderstory" was filmed in Tartu. Despite all frames being documentary, "A Dream" does not neccessarily showcase documentary. It's not a reportage of the filmmaking, rather a vision, an echo that has vanished, but has still existed.
Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being sw...