Tsaar Muhha
1981 · 3 min
A film experiment by the legendary punk group Päratrust, satirizing Soviet power.
Directed by Hardi Volmer
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★ 10.02003
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A mixture of popular stories are reversed and adapted to the Barbie universe. Queen Tiina (that's what these Barbies are called) asks who is the most beautiful in the city of Las Tiinas and someone dares to say that there is someone more beautiful than her. Immediately afterwards, Queen Tiina decides to kill the beautiful doll, who ends up in the sewers surrounded by forgotten toys (such as a melancholic Pinocchio and a charming rag doll).
Jackpot · 1990Jackpot
★ 10.01990
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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.
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★ 8.02013
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Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.
The War · 1987The War
★ 7.71987
MovieAnimationWar
The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning. Somewhere outside the mill another war is fought.
Incipit vita nova · 1992Incipit vita nova
★ 7.51992
MovieAnimationComedy
A husband taking out the trash finds himself in a peculiar world where all kinds of weird things start to happen.
Living Images · 2013Living Images
★ 7.42013
MovieComedyDrama
The main character, Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl. Everything else is a discovery during a life that runs the course of a century - a life that has quite a lot of surprises in store for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius - a man who is far from indifferent when it comes to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have born soldiers' gruff boots and gentleman's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working class commune. And as freedom comes, real estate crooks start sniffing ...
Wonderful New Year's Night · 1984Wonderful New Year's Night
★ 7.01984
MovieAnimation
A family who, at the beginning of the story gives up the plan to buy toys, forms the frame for the film. Finally the same toys, the doll and the goose, find their way to them through the Christmas night. The toys’ journey ends with an extraordinary miracle that fits for a Christmas night.
Springfly · 1986Springfly
★ 7.01986
MovieAnimation
Based on A. H. Tammsaare´s short story "The Fly, the Cockroach and the Spider" this animation weights the problem ethics in human relationships.
The Firewater · 1994The Firewater
★ 7.01994
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The Gold Spinners · 2013The Gold Spinners
★ 6.52013
MovieDocumentaryHistory
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Animated Self-Portraits · 1989Animated Self-Portraits
★ 6.11989
MovieAnimation
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
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★ 5.72008
MovieDrama
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The Enchanted Island · 1985The Enchanted Island
★ 5.71985
MovieAnimationFantasy
A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.
All My Lenins · 1997All My Lenins
★ 5.41997
MovieThrillerComedy
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Self Made Cameraman · 2019Self Made Cameraman
★ 5.02019
MovieAdventureComedy
An adventurous tragedy about Estonia's first film maker Johannes Pääsuke and his aspirations to travel around with a film camera and find happiness. Together with a good friend, Volter, Pääsuke will spend an incredible week in Setomaa.
A Man Who Never Was · 1990A Man Who Never Was
★ 4.01990
MovieDrama
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.
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