Art
Kalju Kivi
Born March 23, 1951 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Died July 19, 2025 · aged 74
Kalju Kivi (March 23, 1951 – July 19, 2025) was an Estonian film artist, screenwriter and director.
Known For
Firebird · 2021Firebird
★ 7.42021
MovieDramaRomance
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
The Eternal Road · 2017The Eternal Road
★ 6.62017
MovieHistoryDrama
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
1944 · 20151944
★ 6.92015
MovieWarDrama
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
Tallinna mosaiik · 1967Tallinna mosaiik
1967
MovieDocumentary
A mosaic photomontage film from the photo album "Across the City" published in the same year, which was made from the images of the legendary Soviet Union's first group of photographers, STODOM. The group, which registered under the wing of Tallinnfilm in 1964, included Tallinnfilm's cameramen Peeter Tooming, Rein Maran and Andrei Dobrovolski at the time, and photographers Tatjana Dobrovolskaja, Kalju Suur and Boris Mäemets. The group played an important role in the development of a new modernist camera language and the discovery of new spaces, especially urban space, for cinematography.
Purge · 2012Purge
★ 6.82012
MovieDramaHistory
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
A Sheet of Paper · 1982A Sheet of Paper
★ 10.01982
MovieAnimation
An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.
Partei liige · 1971Partei liige
1971
MovieDocumentary
Rosiine Kartau tells about her life, work and activities as the head of the Vasula state farm.
Knot · 1983Knot
★ 7.01983
MovieAnimation
In the metamorphosis of two ordinary pieces of rope there is a clear meaning - all people in the world are inseparably related. It is better to live in friendship.
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