Klaus Schulze

biography: Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than sixty albums released across six decades.

Deutsch

biography: Klaus Schulze war ein deutscher Komponist, Musiker und Produzent. Er gilt als wichtiger Vertreter der elektronischen Musik und als Wegbereiter der Berliner Schule.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

iso_3166_1: CH

also_known_as:
Tangerine Dream
Richard Wahnfried
Ash Ra Tempel

title: Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

overview: Kraftwerk's vision of a keyboard-driven world of clicking metronomic rhythms and digitised sound bites may have been the stuff of avant fantasy in the 1970s (the decade that saw the band's first groundbreaking albums), but it is a reality in the new millennium. Their visionary style is explored in KRAFTWERK AND THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, a study of the group, their career and their emergence as the most influential electronic band in the world.

character: Himself

original_title: Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

title: Klaus Schulze feat. Lisa Gerrard -  Rheingold - Live At The Loreley

overview: Klaus Schulze and Australian singer Lisa Gerrard (formerly of Dead Can Dance) work well together on Rheingold: Live at the Loreley. Gerrard doesn't appear on all of this release's moody, hypnotic material, but when she is featured, her performances add a lot to this two-DVD set -- which is a live album more than anything. All of DVD one is devoted to a July 18, 2008 concert in St. Goarshausen, Germany, while DVD two contains the 65-minute documentary "The Real World of Klaus Schulze" and a 55-minute interview (the interviewer is singer/guitarist Steven Wilson, a member of the British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree). The concert in St. Goarshausen is Rheingold's main attraction -- and Schulze is in very good form on the songs that feature Gerrard (the 14-minute "Wellgunde" and the 39-minute "Loreley") as well as the instrumentals that don't ("Nothung," "Wotan," and the 24-minute opener "Alberich").

title: Klaus Schulze feat. Lisa Gerrard - Dziękuję Bardzo

title: Klaus Schulze - Big in Europe, Vol. 1 Warsaw

overview: Live concert by West-German electronic musician and composer Klaus Schulze and the Australian singer Lisa Gerrard.  Klaus Schulze is one of the few West-German musicians who is allowed to go on a celebrated tour in Poland 1983, largely due to the instrumental nature of his music, and he was later asked to return and play at the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Assault on Poland September on September 17, 2009 in Warsaw in the courtyard of the Royal Palace.  Together with Lisa Gerrard, acclaimed exceptional artist and singer of Dead Can Dance, Klaus Schulze delivered an intensive performance in impressing scenery. The second DVD contains, a full length documentary and encore performances.

character: Self

title: Klaus Schulze - Big In Japan

original_title: Klaus Schulze - Big In Japan

title: Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden

character: The Wandering Stars - Keyboard

title: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

overview: Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

original_title: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

job: Music

title: Cloud Path

overview: Music by Klaus Schulze.

department: Sound

original_title: Wolkenpfad

job: Original Music Composer

title: Body Love

overview: Martine is a spoiled socialite who loves to tease, chasing every thrill and every high. On her 21st birthday she has to make a decision between the love she knows and the lust she is to learn.

original_title: Body Love

job: Songs

title: Claude Francois: The Film of His Life

original_title: Claude François - le film de sa vie

title: Hackers

overview: They are passionate hackers and are constantly looking for new problems and their solutions. They live in what appears to be an infinitely accelerated state of data and information, to which the young Leipzig filmmaker Alexander Biedermann adapted for the time of the film. In doing so, he managed to gain astonishing insights into a scene that the “common user” would otherwise never get to see.

original_title: Hacker

job: Cinematography

title: Hackers

title: Barracuda

overview: Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.

original_title: Barracuda

title: Angst

overview: A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

original_title: Angst

title: Havlandet

overview: This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.

original_title: Havlandet

original_language: no

job: Compositor

title: Le Moulin de Daudet

overview: Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.

original_title: Le Moulin de Daudet

title: Seelig

original_title: Seelig

title: Lichtblick

overview: Bastian Clevé  - 14 mins - 1976

original_title: Lichtblick

title: Nachtwache

overview: Experimental short film directed by Bastian Clevé (1976).

original_title: Nachtwache

title: Schau ins Land

overview: Experimental short film by Bastian Clevé (1976).

original_title: Schau ins Land

title: Le Moulin de Daudet

title: Von Richtern und anderen Sympathisanten

overview:
September 1943: the Special Court of Oldenburg pronounces a verdict against an office courier. The man was found guilty of absconding two bars of soap and a tin of shoe polish. As a dangerous public enemy, he is sentenced to death. More than 16,000 death sentences were passed by the Special Court and the People's Court during the Nazi era. And the judges and state prosecutors who perpetrated these injustices were back on the bench after 1945.
 Peggy Parnass, a Jewish journalist and a relative of victims of Nazi injustices, experienced this continuity and described many of its ramifications in more than 10 years as a court reporter. The film follows her radical, subjective viewpoint and her incredible encounters with Nazi jurists in today's courts of law.

original_title: Von Richtern und anderen Sympathisanten

title: Next of Kin

overview: After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

original_title: Next of Kin

original_language: ja

title: Der Stromtreiber - Der Mann im roten Kahn

overview: A 30-year-old returns to his hometown after several years away, where he is confronted with childhood memories, especially feelings of hatred towards his father.

title: Manhunter

overview: FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

original_title: Manhunter

title: The Bling Ring

overview: Lured by stardom, a crew of aimless teens breaks into celebrity homes for a string of high-profile robberies and fame by appropriation.

title: Qâf: The Sacred Mountain

overview: Footage of a volcano eruption in Madagascar set to music by Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh and Tangerine Dream, and poems by Raficq Abdulla.

title: Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

title: Klaus Schulze - Big In Japan

title: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

title: Cloud Path

title: Body Love

title: Claude Francois: The Film of His Life

title: Hackers

title: Hackers

title: Barracuda

title: Angst

title: Havlandet

title: Le Moulin de Daudet

title: Seelig

title: Nachtwache

title: Lichtblick

title: Schau ins Land

title: Le Moulin de Daudet

title: Von Richtern und anderen Sympathisanten

title: Next of Kin

title: Manhunter

title: The Bling Ring

title: Qâf: The Sacred Mountain


Mirtel Pohla

biography:
Mirtel Pohla (born January 28, 1982) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress.

Mirtel Pohla was born in Tartu. She attended secondary school at the Tartu Karlova Gümnaasium, graduating in 2000. Afterward, she applied to and was accepted at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2004.

Between 2004 and 2006, she was engaged as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. In 2005, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayal of Elsa Seebalt in a staging of Andrus Kivirähk's Adolf Rühka lühikene elu. From 2006 until 2014 she was an actress at Theatre NO99 in Tallinn. In 2012, Pohla was awarded the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Estonian Annual Theatre Awards; and was nominated for the same category in 2013. In 2014, she left the Theatre NO99 but has returned as a guest actress. She has also performed at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu and several other theatres throughout Estonia.

Apart from work on the stage, Pohla has appeared in a number of motion pictures and on Estonian television. Her first large television role was that of Berit in the Estonian TV3 soap opera Kodu keset linna from 2003 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2009.

Her first starring role in a motion picture was that of Ilge in the 2005 Kaaren Kaer directed historical comedy Malev, opposite actor Ott Sepp. In 2006, she had a recurring role as Paula in the popular Kanal 2 television crime series Kelgukoerad. In 2007 she appeared in three popular movies; the Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk comedic road movie Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse; the Peeter Simm directed biopic Georg, based on the life of Estonian tenor Georg Ots; and as Jaana, in the Veiko Õunpuu directed bleak drama Sügisball, adapted from Estonian author Mati Unt's 1979 novel of the same name. In 2015, she appeared in the Veiko Õunpuu-directed drama Roukli, and in 2016, appeared in a starring role in the Vallo Toomla-directed thriller Teesklejad opposite actor Priit Võigemast. In 2016, she was offered and accepted the starring role of Karina in Lauri Lagle's directorial film debut Portugal, released in 2018.

From 2008 until 2013, she starred as Maret Roo-Kallaste, one of the four main characters, in ETV's Tuulepealne maa, which was a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series chronicling the pre-World War II history of Estonia; its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.

In 2021, she had a starring role as Marleen in the Ergo Kuld directed comedy film Jahihooaeg alongside Harriet Toompere and Grete Kuld.

Valguses ja varjus

overview: A drama series branching out with exciting secrets, unexpected twists and turns and heartfelt aspects of life itself.

character: Diana

original_name: Valguses ja varjus

original_language: en

Mood Killer

overview: Estonian comedy sketch show consisting of parodies of popular Estonian movies or shows.

character: Various

original_name: Tujurikkuja

original_language: et

Elu võimalikkusest maal

character: Triinu

original_name: Elu võimalikkusest maal

Windward Land

overview: Tuulepealne maa is a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series about the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.

character: Maret Kallaste

original_name: Tuulepealne maa

The Bank

overview: Based on a true story in the turbulent Estonian 90s. Personal dramas will unfold using the historic events as a backdrop, with the characters constantly re-evaluating the currency rates and their personal values.

character: Kati

original_name: Pank

Windward Land

character: Maret Roo

The Day of the Jackal

overview: An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

character: Sofia Magic

original_name: The Day of the Jackal

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

iso_3166_1: AT

Eesti

iso_639_1: et

iso_3166_1: EE

english_name: Estonian

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Hunting Season

overview: Eva, 45, has recently divorced and is now afraid of losing both her son and her best friend to her ex’s new young, successful and brilliant sweetheart Isabel. To win back her positions, Eva goes on a road trip with her friend Marleen and Isabel, which makes the women confront different men, comical mishaps, even more comical quarrels, real hunting and most importantly themselves, forcing them to realise in the Christmas bustle what is most precious in life.

character: Marleen

original_title: Jahihooaeg

title: Empty

overview: A young intellectual, Mati, engineers himself into a situation where he has to spend a weekend with his wife Helina and her lover Eduard. The trio goes to Eduard's summer house, surrounded by the majestic scenery of big forests and an empty beach. Mati, either out of jealousy or pride, has decided to win back his wife and will do anything his introverted and inert mind can come up with.

character: Marina

original_title: Tühirand

title: Shop of Dreams

overview: Three friends return from a vacation and discover that the TV studio they work for has gone bankrupt - so they decide to start their own costume renting business.

character: Administrative Assistant #1

original_title: Stiilipidu

title: Georg

overview: Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the highest ranks of the Soviet Union and millions of ordinary people. Georg Ots took the stage when a huge country was recovering from the horrors of war, and his voice returned them faith in a bright future. Few people know what his life was really like.

character: Margot

original_title: Georg

title: Men at Arms

overview: Year 1208. The first Eastward enlargement of Europe is under way. Brutal forces of the Teutonic Order are steadily marching on. In their path live a simple and peaceful people, whose main pastimes include cultivating the earth, singing and, if possible, doing both at the same time. They are the Estonians. Ignorant in the ways of war, they find an unlikely leader in a young boy with Catholic upbringing. In their fight for freedom, the Estonians encounter numerous obstacles, including the Germans, French, Russians and, worst of all, the Latvians. Will they succeed in defeating their enemies or will they experience a cultural awakening?

character: Ilge

original_title: Malev

title: Two of Me

overview: A humorous take on the specifics of being a twin, that puts the idea that two heads are better than one to the test. Raul and Romet Esko who have shared everything stand facing the challenge of starting an independent life. But how is being alone possible as a twin without being together? Seemingly even more impossible than that is the brothers’ goal to earn a living from filmmaking in Estonia.

character: Mom

original_title: Mind on kaks

title: Autumn Ball

overview: Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray.

character: Jaana

original_title: Sügisball

title: Ash and Money

overview: Film is based on "Unified Estonia" which was a fictitious political movement created by NO99 Theatre and a large portion of the public treated as a real political force. Its convention, held for more than 7200 people, was one of the largest theatre events in modern European theatre history.

original_title: Kust tuleb tolm ja kuhu kaob raha

title: Zero Point

overview: Sensitive and restless Johannes is accepted to an elite school in Tallinn and expects life to go uphill. Instead, he becomes the victim of mental abuse by his classmates. In search of recognition, he goes to his old Lasnamäe friends, who spend their time doing drugs, hanging around, and partying, rather than focusing on schoolwork. At home, Johannes must deal with his mother’s deteriorating mental health. As the tension grows, he finds himself at zero point, where he must completely reset his life to build it up from scratch.

character: Gunnar's Secretary

original_title: Nullpunkt

title: 186 Kilometers

overview: Jan Uuspõld is a talented actor who is not up to scratch due to his problems with alcohol. He makes up his mind to stop taking clownish roles and accepts a serious part in a play at Vanemuise theatre instead. His journey from Tallinn to Tartu becomes an unusual and in a way exaggerated voyage depicting the life and mentality of contemporary Estonia through various human natures, attitudes and ways of thinking.

character: Daffodil

original_title: Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse

title: Twin Turbo

overview: Set in a dystopian future. When an extremely dangerous Twin Turbo engine is stolen from the harbour twins, sister cops Nana and Lulu enter the world of illegal street racing in hopes of turning their lives around.

character: Nana / Lulu (voice)

original_title: Topelt Turbo

title: Roukli

overview: Two men on the run cause chaos in a small community that is on the brink of getting swallowed by war.

original_title: Roukli

title: Letters to Angel

overview: Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja has been fighting in Afghanistan; 21 years later he returns to Estonia to his father's funeral. He has converted to Islam and his only connection to his native land is the sound of his daughter Angel's crying that he heard a long time ago on the phone. Jeremia starts to search for his family. The daily life - if this can be called life in the first place - of the dusty and abandoned town is being run by women since men are almost gone. Nevertheless, the women seem to hope that Jeremia will be able to do something about it in order to remove the paralyzing feeling of emptiness.

character: Merily

original_title: Kirjad Inglile

title: The Polar Boy

overview: Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.

character: Katja

original_title: Polaarpoiss

title: Delusion

overview: After a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their lives. They take time off at their friends' fancy summer house and once there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their mutual bitterness out on the strangers.

character: Anna

original_title: Teesklejad

title: Secret Society of Souptown

overview: Four children - Mari, Sadu, Olav and Anton form a secret society to play hide-and seek games invented by Mari's grandfather, a professor at the university. When the city is attacked by a mysterious poison which turns adults into children our gang embarks on a quest for the antidote.

character: Kadri Heller

original_title: Supilinna salaselts

title: Indigo Room

overview: Young artist Leif lives happily with his girlfriend Grett till the day that something unusual happens. Small accident at work opens a door to another world for Leif. Unfortunately for Grett, in this new world lives another girl who day by day starts to occupy more of Leif's mind and time.

character: Grett

original_title: Indigo Room

title: Portugal

overview: Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviours can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it’s this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question – is everything to be expected in life?  This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost.

character: Karina

original_title: Portugal

title: Phantom Owl Forest

overview: A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm.

character: Lilli

original_title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

title: The Rise And Fall Of Estonia

overview: The Rise and Fall of Estonia is a production by directors Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper. Together they have created large-scale shows already before. "Ruja", a rock-opera, and "Unified Estonia", a convention of a fictitious political movement for 7200 viewers, were not only completely sold out, but also theatre events, which won the major theatre prizes in Estonia. "The Rise and Fall of Estonia" is not a rock-opera. It's not a punk statement. It's a symphony. And it's about Estonia.  Together with actors from NO99 they've created over the years four productions, which more or less deal with Estonia and its state of mind.

original_title: The Rise And Fall Of Estonia

title: Whatever, Aleksander!

overview: Aleksander is a talented young man who has no idea what to do with his life after graduating from high school. Choosing a career, family, university degree, or joining the army seem out of the question. It seems like he has no interest in anything. Unfortunately, neither Aleksander's parents nor his friends can give him advice. For years, Aleksander has observed the way other people live their lives. This has led him to an understanding that he doesn't want to become one of them. He wants a different life. Only that he doesn't know what kind of life that is.

character: Friend

original_title: Mis iganes, Aleksander!

title: Attack on Finland

overview: The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.

character: Raisa

original_title: Omerta 6/12

title: At Your Service

overview: A young mother and a police officer who finds herself in a predicament when deciding who to save - her family, her career, or herself.

place_of_birth: Tartu, Tartu District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]

title: Hunting Season

title: Empty

title: Shop of Dreams

title: Georg

title: Men at Arms

title: Two of Me

title: Autumn Ball

title: Ash and Money

title: Zero Point

title: 186 Kilometers

title: Twin Turbo

title: Roukli

title: Letters to Angel

title: The Polar Boy

title: Delusion

title: Secret Society of Souptown

title: Indigo Room

title: Portugal

title: Phantom Owl Forest

title: The Rise And Fall Of Estonia

title: Whatever, Aleksander!

title: Attack on Finland

title: At Your Service


Jaan Tootsen

biography:
Jaan Tootsen (born October 14, 1975) is an Estonian film director, screenwriter and film producer.

Tootsen's father is journalist, writer and politician Toivo Tootsen. Since 2000 he has worked at Estonian National Broadcasting. He has been a long-time editor of radio program "Ööülikool". From 2012 to 2016 he was the cultural advisor for the Estonian president at the time Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

Eesti

Jaan Tootsen

biography:
Jaan Tootsen (sündinud 14. oktoobril 1975) on eesti ajakirjanik ja dokumentaalfilmirežissöör.

Jaan Tootsen on lõpetanud Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikooli raadiorežii eriala. Ta on raadiosaatesarja "Ööülikool" toimetaja.

1. juunist 2012 kuni 2016. aastani oli Jaan Tootsen president Toomas Hendrik Ilvese koosseisuväline kultuurinõunik.

title: Disco and Atomic War

overview: 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.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_title: Disko ja tuumasõda

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

overview: Jaan Tootsen’s documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in the last year and a half of his term in office – as he grapples with the complexities of world politics and his private life. Tootsen’s keen camera eye follows Ilves at his most difficult moments, showing no mercy, but creating a gripping, rather harsh and at the same time very human portrait of the President.

character: Self

original_title: Kikilipsuga mässaja

job: Director

title: Velosoofid

overview: A short documentary about Tour d'ÖÖ - an Estonian cycling event.

department: Directing

original_title: Velosoofid

title: The New World

overview: A documentary about a group of activists in Tallinn who try to improve their quarter.

original_title: Uus Maailm

job: Writer

title: The New World

department: Writing

title: Wild South

overview: Stories about Tartu and Southern Estonia, capturing the tricks and mysteries about the arts of survival. Renowned filmmakers from Estonia and abroad bring us uniquely wild tales of people, communities, and the culture they live in.  In these stories, we meet peculiar vehicles known as “karakat” from Peipsi, charming non-places of Tartu, the wild German woman living an off-grid life without water and electricity, mischievous goats and crazy village parties, the diverse Annelinn residents and nostalgic Petseri, slime mould and space exploration, and of course, the artists of survival from today and past.

original_title: Metsik lõuna

job: Director of Photography

title: The New World

department: Camera

job: Editor

title: The New World

department: Editing

job: Boom Operator

title: The New World

title: Artists of Survival

overview: As a student, the protagonist watches Emir Kusturica’s film “Black cat, white cat”, about the wacky life of the Balkans, and suddenly realizes that he has already seen all this in his childhood in Võrumaa.

original_title: Ellujäämise kunstnikud

title: Vello Salo. Everyday Mysticism

overview: This film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to this modern day.

original_title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

title: Vello Salo. Everyday Mysticism

title: Fred Jüssi: The Beauty of Being

overview: Fred Jüssi has built his life at the crossroads between nature and culture. He is a true philosopher of the outdoors who has given deep consideration to the fundamental questions of being human. This film is about fruitful idling. A hymn for living slowly. As Fred Jüssi puts it: sometimes you just have to be sinfully slothful, and all by yourself.

original_title: Fred Jüssi. Olemise ilu

title: Fred Jüssi: The Beauty of Being

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

job: Screenplay

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

job: Producer

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

department: Production

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Every Sound a Jewel

overview: Documentary looking at the life and creative development of composer Arvo Pärt. It is suitable for those who are hearing Arvo Pärt’s name for the first time and, with its vast amount of photographic material, will also interest those who are well acquainted with the composer’s work.  Shown exclusively at Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia.

original_title: Arvo Pärt. Muusikajanu

place_of_birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

title: Disco and Atomic War

media_type: movie

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Velosoofid

title: The New World

title: The New World

title: Wild South

title: The New World

title: The New World

title: The New World

title: Artists of Survival

title: Vello Salo. Everyday Mysticism

title: Vello Salo. Everyday Mysticism

title: Fred Jüssi: The Beauty of Being

title: Fred Jüssi: The Beauty of Being

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Every Sound a Jewel


Elmo Nüganen

biography:
Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor.

He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992.  He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards.

Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.

Lotte's Stories

overview: Lotte together with her friends Bruno and Albert, ventures and solves exciting detective puzzles.

character: Lotte's Grandfather

original_name: Lotte lood

Kalamaja Blues

overview: In Kalamaja, Estonia, two couples—Olli and Sofi, and Moonika and Jan—find their relationships tested by love, trust, and the unpredictable nature of being in your 20s. As Olli struggles with the weight of her parents' disapproval, cracks begin to form in her once-idyllic romance with Sofi. Meanwhile, a sexual health scare throws Moonika and Jan into uncertainty, pushing Moonika to seek comfort in unexpected places—including a chaotic speed dating event. As tensions rise and hard truths come to light, both couples must decide—will facing reality bring them closer or tear them apart for good?

character: Neighbor

original_name: Kalamaja Blues

origin_country: EE FI

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

ქართული

iso_639_1: ka

iso_3166_1: GE

english_name: Georgian

also_known_as: ელმო ნუგანენი

title: Mushrooming

overview: Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the reputation campaign. They are joined by a voter, penniless rock star Zäk. In order to avoid common mushroom forests, they drive to some countryside at random. Soon the trio discovers that they are lost, at the same time a media scandal breaks out - the investigative press suspects that Kägu has misused state money. The fight for honor, life and death begins, both in the forest and in the city.

character: Gas Station Attendant

original_title: Seenelkäik

title: Names in Marble

overview: Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war.

character: Armored Train Commander

original_title: Nimed marmortahvlil

title: Love for Three Oranges

overview: "Love for Three Oranges" is the first play by Carlo Gozzi (December 13, 1720 - April 4, 1806). He wrote it in 1761.  The play is based on a parody of the fairy tale "Love Against Three Oranges". It was originally written as canovaccio (the explanation of the content on which commedia dell'arte actors improvise the text), but later Gozzi also added some dialogue instructions and critical explanations.

character: Pantalone

original_title: Armastus kolme apelsini vastu

title: Tangerines

overview: War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

character: Margus

original_title: Mandariinid

title: Purge

overview: 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.

character: Father

original_title: Puhdistus

original_language: fi

title: August välja

overview: A short film about an old actress Leida Rammo who tries to complete an unfinished theatre house project.

character: Himself

original_title: August välja

title: Demons

overview: When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't possibly be aware of the very existence of the demons inside them. Soon enough, they will know. But then it is already too late and their lives are suddenly caught in a fatal vortex.

character: Stranger

original_title: Deemonid

title: Conversation

overview: The Old Woman lives in a deep Estonian forest, alone and isolated. Her parents came here to settle to raise and educate their children in the right way. They all died long ago. The Old Woman leads her farm, until one day her world almost collapses due to the intrusion of a lost stranger.

original_title: Kõnelus

title: Marraskuun harmaa valo

overview: Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

character: Tõnu Valjus

original_title: Marraskuun harmaa valo

title: Portugal

character: Boss

title: Dawn of War

overview: A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.

character: Major Kurg

title: Prompter

overview: The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute.

character: Robert

original_title: Suflöör

title: Sunday Only

overview: 50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The younger one, Ilmar, a formerly capable artist, has just been released under an amnesty from a camp where he ended up for some youthful prank. Older brother Alex, by nature a more reserved person who prefers to find compromise solutions, is the complete opposite of Ilmar. The meeting of the brothers develops into a conflict, complicated by the fact that Ilmar got in touch with repeat offenders in the camp, and now they are threatening him with violence.

original_title: Ainus pühapäev

title: For Crazies Only

overview: A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.

original_title: Ainult hulludele ehk halastajaõde

title: Father, Son and Holy Theatre

overview: Alar Sudak alias Elaan is the don Quijote of Estonian theatre - predestined to eternal loneliness. Sudak's dream to become an officially acknowledged actor has never come true. He has failed the entrace exams to the Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and other schools. The documentary tells a story related to the Old Testament - including good-hearted Satan, water wars, unrequited love of theatre, jurisprudence, community's revenge that lasts over several generations and regimes. Elaan's life and destiny includes so much drama that he is unable to let go of it - as his actor's spirit cannot live without it.

original_title: Isa, Poeg ja Teatri Vaim

title: One-Dimensional Man

overview: Raul's father Viktor, a Soviet-era Estonian militia officer, shaped his son with communist ideology. Raul was raised in a violent and pathological attitude of the despotic father, blindly driven by the ideology. Driven by his jealousy of his wife and her bohemian lifestyle, Viktor, being a high ranking KGB officer, stated her as a predator against the Soviet nation, and one early morning she is taken by KGB agents to an unknown destination.

character: Investigator

original_title: Ühemõõtmeline mees

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

character: Self (uncredited)

title: Serafima

overview: In Soviet Estonia, one woman's tragedy intersects with a doctor's inner struggle: to obey the orders of an authoritarian system or risk losing everything in the name of truth.

original_title: Serafima

title: Mindless

overview: A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.

original_title: Meeletu

title: Names in Marble

title: Mindless

title: Names in Marble

title: Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

overview: In the middle of the night, a drunk town guard happens to meet the daughter of a rich merchant… who drowned herself into a well 10 years ago. Soon after the town guard falls dead from the tower. This is followed by two other suspicious deaths. Doubting the existence of the ghost, Melchior has a hunch that these ‘accidents’ are part of a heinous crime. Tracking down the killer, his path will cross with heretics, old feuds and dark family secrets.

original_title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

title: Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter

overview: Melchior’s bride Keterlyn happens to witness an attack on a young man. The victim, who has lost his memory, does not know who he is and how he ended up in a Tallinn. A ring found at the scene leads Melchior to the trail of the nocturnal brotherhood, questions are also raised by the troupe of freaks who performed on fair day. Ominous signs suggest that not only is the stranger recovering from a murder attempt at risk, but Melchior and Keterlyn as well. At the same time, an inquisitor known as a ruthless witch hunter arrives in town. Melchior's ability to "speak to the dead" and to notice invisible traces of murder have raised the suspicion that he may be a dangerous heretic. And the place of the enemy of the church is at the stake…

original_title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

title: Love for Three Oranges

title: 1944

overview: 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.

title: Melchior the Apothecary

overview: In medieval Tallinn, a famous knight who is freed from the pirates of the Baltic Sea is murdered. The hero's head is cut off and his mouth is stuffed with coins. The gold chain he bought the same day is missing. The bailiff orders Melchior, an apothecary, to investigate the crime. The clever young man discovers that the slain was looking for a mysterious "Tallinn prisoner" and the traces lead to the Dominican monastery. A fabulous sequence of bloodwork is unleashed - anyone who comes into contact with this secret is in danger of dying.

title: Burattino

overview: Born from the fairytale of Alexei Tolstoy, a lively story about a curious tree boy Burattino who gets into an unexpected adventure.

title: Love for Three Oranges

title: Melchior the Apothecary

title: Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

place_of_birth: Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]

title: Mushrooming

title: Names in Marble

title: Love for Three Oranges

title: Tangerines

title: Purge

title: August välja

title: Demons

title: Conversation

title: Marraskuun harmaa valo

title: Portugal

title: Dawn of War

title: Prompter

title: Sunday Only

title: For Crazies Only

title: Father, Son and Holy Theatre

title: One-Dimensional Man

title: Rebel with a Bow Tie

title: Serafima

title: Mindless

title: Mindless

title: Names in Marble

title: Names in Marble

title: Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

title: Love for Three Oranges

title: 1944

title: Melchior the Apothecary

title: Burattino

title: Love for Three Oranges

title: Melchior the Apothecary

title: Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost


Priit Võigemast

biography: Priit Võigemast (born April 18, 1980) is an Estonian film, television and stage actor. Between 2002 and 2007 he has performed in the Ugala, Tallinna Linnateater and other theatres. He is probably best known for the role of Henn Ahas in the 2002 war drama Names in Marble. He was married to actress Evelin Võigemast.

Mood Killer

overview: Estonian comedy sketch show consisting of parodies of popular Estonian movies or shows.

character: Various

Alo

overview: A comedy series about an aspiring salesman working in a car dealership whose life is far from what he would have liked. Competition is fierce and only a few remain at the top. From friendship to hatred is just one small step ...

character: Viljo

original_name: Alo

The Bank

overview: Based on a true story in the turbulent Estonian 90s. Personal dramas will unfold using the historic events as a backdrop, with the characters constantly re-evaluating the currency rates and their personal values.

character: Kalju Tamm

Taskmaster - kuninga käsul

overview: Five celebrities compete in tasks set by the King and his assistant in this Estonian version of the comedy game show.

original_name: Taskmaster - kuninga käsul

also_known_as: Прийт Войгемаст

title: Happy Birthday

overview: "Happy Birthday" is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favour or will the status quo remain firm?

character: Jesus (voice)

original_title: Happy Birthday

title: Names in Marble

overview: Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war.

character: Henn Ahas

original_title: Nimed marmortahvlil

title: Set Point

overview: On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.

character: Kristofer

original_title: Täna öösel me ei maga

title: Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

overview: Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones that a pair of hooded figures are attempting to retrieve.

character: Paul the Cat (voice)

original_title: Lotte ja kuukivi saladus

title: Kalev

overview: The Soviet Union teeters on the verge of collapse in 1990 and tiny Baltic nations struggle to take back their independence. A rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation in the USSR's basketball championship. The team makes the unpopular choice to participate.

character: Riho Soonik

original_title: Kalev

title: Fränk

overview: Following a serious domestic violence incident, 13 year old Paul arrives in an unfamiliar town where in his pursuit of happiness he makes one bad decision after another. His seemingly inevitable downfall is thwarted, however, by a strange disabled man.

character: Jarko

original_title: Fränk

title: Take It or Leave It

overview: One sleepy Saturday morning a 30-year-old construction worker Erik gets some earth shattering news: his ex-girlfriend Moonika who he hasn't even seen for the past six months is about to go into labor. She however is not ready for motherhood and if Erik doesn't want the kid either, the little girl will be put up for adoption.

character: Lawyer

original_title: Võta või jäta

title: Living Images

overview: 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 ...

character: Julius / Julius' Dad

original_title: Elavad pildid

title: Rockooper Ruja

overview: Rock opera on the rise and fall of Estonian prog rock band "Ruja"

character: Rein Rannap

original_title: Rockooper Ruja

title: The Great Painter

overview: A grey world makes people somber. A world full of colors makes people irritated. What is a poor painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd? Paint it white?

character: (voice)

original_title: Suur maalritöö

title: Bad Hair Friday

overview: At 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 dellarte, the characters each have easily recognizable roles

character: "Butcher"

original_title: Vasaku jala reede

title: Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

overview: In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they are dragged into events that started in the 15th century in the local bishop's stronghold. The children must solve a difficult mystery of a clock robbery and they have to find a treasure that has been lost for centuries and contains a formula of making gold.

character: Stig Velson

original_title: Väikelinna detektiivid ja valge daami saladus

title: Burattino

character: Burattino

original_title: Burattino

title: The Spy and The Poet

overview: Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy's plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?

character: Madis

original_title: Luuraja ja luuletaja

title: Delusion

overview: After a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their lives. They take time off at their friends' fancy summer house and once there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their mutual bitterness out on the strangers.

character: Juhan

original_title: Teesklejad

title: Truth and Justice

overview: Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.

character: Pearu

original_title: Tõde ja õigus

title: Phantom Owl Forest

overview: A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm.

character: Oskar

original_title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

title: Dawn of War

character: Feliks Kangur

title: Blue

overview: When a man rushing to work hits a woman in a hospital gown with his car, she hijacks the situation and gets into his car, demanding that he take her away from there.

character: Sass

original_title: Sinine

title: Estonian Soil and Estonian Ruja

overview: On August 20th of 2017 the legendary Estonian rock band Ruja was reunited. They performed for just one show at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. The event was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the restoration of Estonian independence. The original members of the band were joined by Estonia’s most talented instrumentalists and singers. The pairing produced a powerful and engaging concert that created an unforgettable experience for everyone attending it.

original_title: Eesti muld ja Eesti Ruja

title: Serafima

character: Dr. Vasar

title: Beatrice

overview: After a fatal car accident, thanks to a revolutionary scientific experiment, Kristi returns to her husband and child as record of her self-consciousness is integrated into a surrogate's body.

original_title: Beatrice

place_of_birth: Alu, Rapla District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Rapla County, Estonia]

title: Happy Birthday

title: Names in Marble

title: Set Point

title: Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

title: Kalev

title: Fränk

title: Take It or Leave It

title: Living Images

title: Rockooper Ruja

title: The Great Painter

title: Bad Hair Friday

title: Burattino

title: The Spy and The Poet

title: Delusion

title: Truth and Justice

title: Phantom Owl Forest

title: Dawn of War

title: Blue

title: Estonian Soil and Estonian Ruja

title: Serafima

title: Beatrice


Richard Ashcroft

Vivement dimanche

character: Self

original_name: Vivement dimanche

original_language: fr

Late Show with David Letterman

overview: David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a house band led by Paul Shaffer. Among the show's most-famous segments are the Top Ten List and Stupid Pet Tricks, the latter of which subsequently led to an additional recurring segment called Stupid Human Tricks.

character: Self - Musical Guest

original_name: Late Show with David Letterman

The BRIT Awards

overview: The biggest night in the British music calendar, the BRIT Awards celebrate the biggest successes in music & promote new talent.

original_name: The BRIT Awards

Deutsch

biography: Richard Paul Ashcroft ist ein englischer Musiker, bekannt als Frontmann und  Mitgründer der Gruppe The Verve.

also_known_as:
The Verve
Richard Paul Ashcroft
RPA

title: Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

overview: A comprehensive re-edit of the source footage shot in 1993 for the original 1995 film, charting three days at the Glastonbury music festival.

original_title: Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

title: The Verve - V Festival 2008

overview: The Verve close the V Festival with a headlining show at the Chelmsford leg of the event.

character: Himself

original_title: The Verve - V Festival 2008

title: Live 8

overview: On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians from across the globe - asked people not for their money, but for their voice.

original_title: Live 8

title: The Verve: This Is Music - The Singles 92-98

overview: Along with their contemporaries Blur and Oasis, The Verve has been one of the most influential bands ever to come out of the United Kingdom. Their graceful incorporation of nearly all musical genres--everything from classical, jazz, and trance--established their sound as something truly masterful and innovative. This collection of 14 hits from 1992-1998 features the inspirational anthem, "Bittersweet Symphony," whose opening strings are one of the most familiar orchestral pop arrangements of that era.

character: Lead Vocals

title: The Verve - Live at Haigh Hall, Wigan 1998

overview: The Verve play live at Haigh Hall in Wigan.

title: This is the Verve: Do Not Panic

overview: 10 classic songs from The Verve shot through the eyes of 10 US cities from NYC to San Francisco. Featuring life on the bus and interviews with the band.

original_title: This is the Verve: Do Not Panic

title: Urban Hymns

overview: DVD included in the Super Deluxe Edition (2017) of Urban Hymns.  The Video 1996-1998 –originally issued as HUTVID1  Later with Jools Holland – 01/11/97 – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED  Live at Haigh Hall – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED  The promo videos

original_title: Urban Hymns

title: The Verve: The Video 96 - 98

overview: Video compilation of the Verve documenting their 1996-1998 Urban Hymns era.

original_title: The Verve: The Video 96 - 98

title: The Verve - A Storm In Heaven - Live At Camden Town Hall

overview: October 23, 1992  Setlist:  01-Slide Away  02-All in the Mind  03-She's a Superstar  04-A Man Called Sun  05-South Pacific  06-Already There  07-The Sun, the Sea  08-Gravity Grave  09-A Man Called Sun (New York, 10/29/92)  10-South Pacific (Sawmills Studios, 12/92)  11-Blue USA mix (promo video)

title: Cruel Intentions

overview: Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

original_title: Cruel Intentions

place_of_birth: Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK

title: Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

title: The Verve - V Festival 2008

title: Live 8

title: This is the Verve: Do Not Panic

title: Urban Hymns

title: The Verve: The Video 96 - 98

Vivement dimanche

media_type: tv

title: Cruel Intentions

known_for_department: Acting


Meelis Rämmeld

biography: Meelis Rämmeld (born April 4, 1975 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor. In 1997 he graduated from Viljandi Culture Academy Theatre Department. After graduating he worked in Ugala Theatre. Since 2015 he is working at Endla Theatre. Besides theatre roles he has played also in several films and television series.  In early summer 2016, Rämmeld married actress Kadri Adamson. In 2017, the couple had a daughter.

Revenge Office

overview: A group of women create an organization named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysteries for the police.

character: Tarmo Kreen

original_name: Kättemaksukontor

Elu võimalikkusest maal

character: Leo

Tuuli Roosma mees

overview: If you have the greatest wife on Earth and you are the lousiest man, who are you? The husband of Tuuli Roosma. One day Arbo is fed up with living in the shadow of his wife. He puts his foot down and starts a new life.

character: Puuküürnik Jüri

original_name: Tuuli Roosma mees

Ment

overview: In a humorous tone, "Ment" (Russian criminals called militiamen in Soviet-era slang) tells the story of the daily life of an ordinary police officer.

character: Hans-Kristjan Siig

original_name: Ment

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: TW

english_name: Mandarin

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

Deutsch

Meelis Rämmeld

biography: Meelis Rämmeld (* 4. April 1975 in Tallinn) ist ein estnischer Schauspieler. 1997 schloss er sein Studium an der Theaterabteilung der Kulturakademie Viljandi ab. Anschließend arbeitete er am Ugala-Theater. Seit 2015 ist er am Endla-Theater engagiert. Neben Theaterrollen wirkte er auch in mehreren Filmen und Fernsehserien mit. Im Frühsommer 2016 heiratete Rämmeld die Schauspielerin Kadri Adamson. 2017 kam ihre gemeinsame Tochter zur Welt.

title: Sandra Gets a Job

overview: Doctor of Physics Sandra suddenly loses her job. Finding a new job seems easy at first glance, but it turns into various tragicomic challenges. Endless job interviews bring the former researcher together with all sorts of situations and new personalities.

character: Criminalist

original_title: Sandra saab tööd

title: County Court

overview: An absurdist court drama where a mother and a father, ex-spouses, fight over the custody of their 5-year old son. However, the whole process takes place in the middle of a grain field instead of the classic court room. On that field the courtroom has no boundaries much like the mother and father whose actual goal is to exact vengeance on each other with no regard to the means used, forgetting their child entirely.

character: Judge

original_title: Maakohus

title: Wednesday

overview: Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity.

character: Jaanus

original_title: Kolmapäev

title: Shop of Dreams

overview: Three friends return from a vacation and discover that the TV studio they work for has gone bankrupt - so they decide to start their own costume renting business.

character: Andres

original_title: Stiilipidu

title: Where the Heart Is

overview: Arno Tali's son Arnold returns to his homeland Paunvere, which ignites a passionate love triangle between Paunvere's young Toots', Kiir's and Teele's. Despite the restrictions of the occupation period, people party, have fun and fight, youthful bravado does not allow itself to be tamed even in dangerous times.

character: Jüri

original_title: Talve

title: On the Water

overview: Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door.

character: Fisherman

original_title: Vee peal

title: Love Is Blind

overview: 30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a postcard to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk.

character: Rein

original_title: Kertu

title: The Vacationers

overview: Fisherman Ärni has decided to take vacationers for midsummer due to the poor catch of fish. The plan is not bad, but extremely troublesome guests arrive at his beautiful farm in Muhumaa: Mrs. Sohvia, her husband Johan, their son Junior and Sohvia's beautiful sister Erna with her businessman cavalier Ivo. From first glance, it is clear that Ärni and his wife Laine will have a hard time with these vacationers.

character: Johan Sen.

original_title: Suvitajad

title: FRESH BLOOD: Own and Stranger

overview: Six fresh short films on the topic "Own and Stranger" from even more fresh Estonian directors.

character: Father (segment "Solstice")

original_title: VÄRSKE VERI: Oma ja võõras

title: Strawberry Eaters

overview: A fantasy film about two strawberry farmers whose field is destroyed by ravenous snails. The couple tries to start a new life in the city but when the woman announces they're expecting a child, the paranoid man suspects that snails are behind that as well.

character: Man (voice)

original_title: Maasikaõgijad

title: Deliver Us

overview: When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one the Messiah, the other the Antichrist.

character: Factory Worker

original_title: Deliver Us

title: Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

overview: The 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.

character: Raul (Virgin) / (Shadow)

original_title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

title: The Shadow

overview: Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the Wild West of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious castles of German nobility that have sworn allegiance to the Czar, and to the depths of ancient forests where witchcraft is still practiced. Juhan is fighting crime and his own inner demons. He is considered mad and pronounced crazy. But by standing for justice and truth, at the end of the day, he is the sanest of them all.

character: Madjus

original_title: Vari

title: The Polar Boy

overview: Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.

character: Defense Attorney

original_title: Polaarpoiss

title: Fire Lily

overview: The mystical and thrilling drama asks what sort of reality can give our life meaning. The film tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength. Unexpectedly, her deepest wish to become a mother materializes, but not quite in the way she imagined it.

character: Kalev

original_title: Tuliliilia

title: 8 Views of Lake Biwa

overview: On the shimmering shores of Europe’s otherworldly edge, two teenage girls, Hanake and her best friend are discussing their first love interest while gazing out at yachts sailing to Kyoto. They whisper prayers and poems, the language of their longings. But the magic is fading in their isolated fishing village as they’re dealing with a recent disaster, with some indulging in erotic art, some in spiritual spells. It becomes clear that intimacy alone won’t help them process their loss.

character: Andrei

original_title: Biwa järve 8 nägu

title: Nightingale

overview: Autumn 1944 in Tallinn, Estonia. German forces retreat as the Russian army settles in. Young soldier Aleksei is sent from the frontline to work in a prison filled with Estonian political prisoners.

character: Endel

original_title: Ööbik

title: Faulty Brides

overview: The owner of the Lipuvere farm decides to marry his daughters off to wealthy suitors from the Mulgi Parish. However, the hearts of the girls already belong to local boys, with whom a plan is forged to get rid of the troublesome grooms.

character: Cossack

original_title: Vigased pruudid

title: Wishes from the Well

overview: The story of a man caught between the gears of life, who has to find the missing pennies to buy medicine before the pharmacy closes. When begging doesn't help, despair drives him to the bottom of the wishing well.

character: Kalle

original_title: Soovid kaevu põhjast

title: Black Peter

overview: Peter and his wife have dinner with friends in a restaurant. They have not quarreled for two weeks already. A new record could be in the making. But a trivial argument soon grows into a quarrel and the night brings weird games into their relationship.

character: Friend

original_title: Must Peeter

title: Skin of a Mandarin

overview: The film delicately follows 25-year-old Anna, whose mother has died suddenly. She wants to send her Orthodox mother on her last journey according to customs, but she runs into bureaucratic rules that do not allow Anna to dress her departed mother herself. This conflict brings her together with Maria, a 45-year-old funeral home worker, who in this story represents the hidden fears of death and grief on a deep emotional level.

original_title: Puudutus

title: Roukli

overview: Two men on the run cause chaos in a small community that is on the brink of getting swallowed by war.

character: Indrik

original_title: Roukli

title: Delusion

overview: After a heavy decision, Anna and Juhan are unable to move on with their lives. They take time off at their friends' fancy summer house and once there, are forced to offer shelter to another couple caught in the storm. The couple assumes that the house belongs to Anna and Juhan and they do nothing to correct the mistake. Instead, they seize their new roles and start taking their mutual bitterness out on the strangers.

character: Erik

title: Portugal

overview: Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviours can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it’s this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question – is everything to be expected in life?  This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost.

title: The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

overview: After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore.

title: November

overview: In 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.

title: Phantom Owl Forest

title: Rain

overview: The film follows 12-year-old Ats, whose older brother Rain unexpectedly returns to the family home in a small seaside town to face their authoritarian father Kalju and their mother, a woman on the verge of losing love. Ats is a witness to the clash between his father and brother, two stubborn men from different generations with radically different views of the world.

title: Time Capsule

overview: Emeri comes across a map from her childhood - a map that marks the location of a time capsule buried 19 years earlier - and memories come rushing back.

title: Free Range

overview: After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie, Fred, an aspiring writer, learns that his girlfriend is pregnant.

title: Azrael

overview: In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.

title: Big Zeus

overview: Father Koit is a clergyman who has fallen prey to gambling, having lost all the decaying church's funds and donations in an online casino. His savior comes in the form of his daughter Maria, who wants her father to serve God again instead of slot machines.

title: The Tree of Many Faces

overview: A Slavic folk tale unfurls when a lovelorn woman decides to sacrifice her soul for the heart of another.

place_of_birth: Tallinn, Harju District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

title: Sandra Gets a Job

title: County Court

title: Wednesday

title: Shop of Dreams

title: Where the Heart Is

title: On the Water

title: Love Is Blind

title: The Vacationers

title: FRESH BLOOD: Own and Stranger

title: Strawberry Eaters

title: Deliver Us

title: Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

title: The Shadow

title: The Polar Boy

title: Fire Lily

title: 8 Views of Lake Biwa

title: Nightingale

title: Faulty Brides

title: Wishes from the Well

title: Black Peter

title: Skin of a Mandarin

title: Roukli

title: Delusion

title: Portugal

title: The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

title: November

title: Phantom Owl Forest

title: Rain

title: Time Capsule

title: Free Range

title: Azrael

title: Big Zeus

title: The Tree of Many Faces


Uldis Pūcītis

biography:
Uldis Pūcītis (April 15, 1937 – December 14, 2000) was a Latvian television, theater and film actor, scriptwriter and film director.

Uldis Pūcītis was born in Ranka parish, Gulbene District to Jānis Pūcītis and his wife Anna Pūcīte. After graduating from school in Ranka he continued his studies in Riga and studied at the Latvian State Conservatory, graduating in 1959. Following his graduation, he worked as schoolteacher in the town of Aizpute for four years while engaged at the Liepāja Theater from 1960 to 1972, the Dailes Theater from 1964 to 1973 and the Youth Theatre from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1973 until 1992.

Pūcītis made his film debut in a small role as a fisherman in the 1959 Ada Neretniece-directed Latvian language Soviet film Svešiniece ciemā (English release title: Stranger in the Village) before his first starring role opposite Latvian actress Vija Artmane in the Leonīds Leimanis-directed period-drama Purva bridējs, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis. He would go on to appear in a number of film and television roles throughout the 1960s and into the 1990s, as well as continuing his stage career.

In 1998, Pūcītis would write the script and co-direct the television mini-series Izpostītā ligzda for Latvijas Televīzija (LTV) with Armands Zvirbulis. The film and both Zvirbulis and Pūcītis would be awarded the Lielais Kristaps; the highest prize awarded for Latvian cinema.

Pūcītis was married to Olīvija Pūcīte (née Poselanova). Their daughter is actress Milēna Gulbe-Kavace, and grandson is professional tennis player Ernests Gulbis. In late 2000, Pūcītis fell ill at his summer home in Jūrmala. After being taken to the hospital in Riga, he was initially diagnosed with a stomach ulcer. However, he died in hospital of a pulmonary embolism and was buried at the Riga Forest Cemetery.

Born of Revolution

overview: About the struggle between criminal investigators and the criminal world. Based on real events and documents, the film recreates the atmosphere of 1920s Russia, which was swept by a wave of violence... At the heart of the story is the fate and career of a young man who, together with his comrades, is about to make history in Soviet criminal investigation...

character: Степан Петрович Сергеев

original_name: Рождённая революцией

original_language: ru

Time Chose Us

overview: A Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.

character: Пауль Рихтер

original_name: Время выбрало нас

title: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel

overview: The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.

character: Inspector Glebsky

original_title: Hukkunud Alpinisti hotell

title: Siberian Grandfather

overview: Story about one of the leaders of the partisan movement Nestor Kalandarishvili during  Russian Civil War in Siberia.

character: Strodi

original_title: ციმბირელი პაპა

original_language: ka

title: Ibsen's Motif

overview: A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".

original_title: Ibsena motīvs

original_language: lv

title: Brothers Rico

character: Marco Feliche

original_title: Братья Рико

title: Белая земля

overview: Operation Holtsauga was a Nazi plan to destroy Soviet ships and aircraft approaching Murmansk, which was carried out in 1942. Near Bezymyanny Island, a Soviet ship struck a mine and sank, and engineer Okulich, who miraculously survived, was taken prisoner. However, he managed to escape and even took German officer Ritter with him. During a week of difficult travel to the mainland, he learns from the German about the Holzaug plan. Thirty years later, an explosion occurs on Bezymyanny Island during the construction of an astrophysical station. Now Okulich must uncover all the details of the old operation in Munich...

character: Johann Ritter

original_title: Белая земля

title: Special Destination Force

overview: Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay.  Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

original_title: Отряд особого назначения

title: Short Tutorial on Loving

overview: In the Latvian countryside at the end of the 19th century, Jānis decides it is time to find a wife—but choosing the right one proves no easy task. Pretending to have gone deaf after listening to church bells from the bell tower, he visits the surrounding farms and overhears conversations never meant for his ears. While others reveal their true characters, only Ilze, the blacksmith’s sister, shows genuine concern and wonders how the unfortunate young man might be cured.

character: Vējš

original_title: Īsa pamācība mīlēšanā

title: Reflection in the Water

overview: Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to start his life anew. The attention is concentrated on the inner world of Markalns, his feelings in this so important period of his life, when to endure and to proceed means to regain the lost sense of life and himself. His character and emotional world opens in a wide scale: in collisions with colleagues, patients, friends, himself. He is contradictory, but even in moments of low spirits, virile. A real warmth and balance of mind is brought in the life of the outwardly robust and clumsy surgeon by a shy small-town girl Irita, called Doggie.

character: Zigurds

original_title: Atspulgs ūdenī

title: Light at the End of the Tunnel

overview: A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.

character: Jānis

original_title: Свет в конце тоннеля

title: Four White Shirts

overview: Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship authorities for a public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to Cēzars' songs and deems the lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”, and is later powerless to stop the grindstone of public debate, which she has herself initiated.

character: Cēzars

original_title: Četri balti krekli

title: Keys to Paradise

overview: Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.

character: Yanis Krastins

original_title: Paradīzes atslēgas

title: The Swamp Wader

overview: Latvia in the late 19th century. Edgars, the coachman of Alaine manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. Servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by a rich landowner, Akmentins.

character: Edgars

original_title: Purva bridējs

title: Rock and Splinters

overview: During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.

character: Alfons

original_title: Akmens un šķembas

title: The Experiment of Dr. Abst

overview: During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...

original_title: Эксперимент доктора Абста

title: The Risk

overview: 1944.	On the Polish front, the fascists are building a secret defensive barrier. The task of obtaining the plans for the structures is assigned to a young intelligence agent, Maria, who must make contact with the frontline intelligence resident, Major Kurtz, behind enemy lines…

original_title: Риск

title: To Be Unwanted

overview: Valdemārs 'Voldis' Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life.

character: Petaks

original_title: Liekam būt

title: Landing

overview: Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.

original_title: Maaletulek

title: Laikmetu griežos

overview: A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.

original_title: Laikmetu griežos

title: Autumn Is Still Far Away

overview: A young girl is puzzled when she has to choose a husband. She cannot decide whether to marry her childhood friend or a recently met nouveau riche.

original_title: Līdz rudenim vēl tālu

title: Tobago Changes Course

overview: Summer, 1940. Foreseeing the collapse of the Ulmanis regime, the owner of a ship sailing off the coast of Latvia decides to flee the country. Subsequently, the sailors learn about the establishment of Soviet power in their homeland, and the ship changes course...

original_title: "Tobago" maina kursu

title: Captain Enrico's Watch

overview: A young boy finds a watch with an engraving in Spanish saying that the watch belongs to Captain Enrico, and adventures begin...

character: Jāzeps Vilāns

original_title: Kapteiņa Enriko pulkstenis

title: Maija and Paija

overview: A Latvian fairy-tale film based on Anna Brigadere’s classic play. It follows two stepsisters: gentle, hardworking Maija and spoiled, idle Paija whose trials in the underworld reveal their true natures, with rewards and consequences to match.

original_title: Maija un Paija

title: Meldru mežs

overview: The film is about the fisherman Styopa, who alone survived the sinking of a fishing vessel.

original_title: Meldru mežs

title: When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window

overview: The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...

original_title: Kad lietus un vēji sitas logā

title: The Bicycle Tamers

overview: A comedy about a young inventor girl, a brave veterinarian, his athletic friend and funny cycling races, where not strongest wins, but true friendship and love.

original_title: Jalgrattataltsutajad

title: On the Track of the Wolf

overview: The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.

original_title: Pe urmele fiarei

original_language: ro

title: A Child

overview: The German-Soviet war. A group of scouts discovers a four-year-old girl at a bombed-out railway station who hid during the bombing and fell behind the echelon of evacuated orphanage children, and takes her with them. Soon the scouts are ambushed by the Germans in the forest.

character: German

original_title: Ребёнок

original_language: uk

title: Old Plane Tree

overview: About the family of the old man Achila-Buva, about his children and grandchildren living in an Uzbek village, about an old plane tree covering the saplings with its branches.

original_title: Чинара

title: Long Day Morning

overview: The Civil War. In order to capture Siberia, the White Guards decided to take Yakutia first and captured Jan Krasts's reconnaissance unit. However, the Red Army unit managed to escape. They blocked General Pelov's path and kept Yakutsk under their control until the arrival of the Red Army units...

character: Jānis Krasts

original_title: Ilgās dienas rīts

title: Cottage in the Dunes

overview: A retired former Master of Marine engines decides to purchase a house by the sea. Dreaming of a quiet and happy retirement life, he moves there with his wife and grandson, Volodya.

original_title: Mājiņa kāpās

title: Figūras

overview: A film essay on the theme of the underground city, the post-war mood – about winners and losers.

character: German POV

original_title: Figūras

title: Izpostītā ligzda

overview: A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

original_title: Izpostītā ligzda

title: Izpostītā ligzda

title: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel

title: Siberian Grandfather

original_title: ციმბირელი პაპა

title: Ibsen's Motif

title: Brothers Rico

title: Белая земля

title: Special Destination Force

original_title: Отряд особого назначения

title: Short Tutorial on Loving

title: Reflection in the Water

title: Light at the End of the Tunnel

original_title: Свет в конце тоннеля

title: Four White Shirts

title: Keys to Paradise

title: The Swamp Wader

title: Rock and Splinters

title: The Experiment of Dr. Abst

original_title: Эксперимент доктора Абста

title: The Risk

title: To Be Unwanted

title: Landing

title: Laikmetu griežos

title: Autumn Is Still Far Away

title: Tobago Changes Course

title: Captain Enrico's Watch

title: Maija and Paija

title: Meldru mežs

title: The Bicycle Tamers

title: On the Track of the Wolf

title: A Child

title: Old Plane Tree

title: Long Day Morning

title: Cottage in the Dunes

title: Figūras

Born of Revolution

character: Степан Петрович Сергеев

original_name: Рождённая революцией

Time Chose Us

character: Пауль Рихтер

original_name: Время выбрало нас

title: Izpostītā ligzda

title: Izpostītā ligzda


Andres Mähar

biography:
Andres Mähar (born on February 2, 1978 in Tartu) is an Estonian actor.

Mähar studied at Türi Secondary School and sang in the Türi Boys' Choir. In 1996, he enrolled at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's performing arts department in Tallinn, studying acting under course supervisor Ingo Normet, graduating in 2000.

From 2000 until 2006, and again since 2011, he been a contracted actor at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu. From 2006 until 2011, he worked at the NO99 Theatre. Besides stage roles he has also acted on films and television series.

Revenge Office

overview: A group of women create an organization named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysteries for the police.

character: Artur Kaadus

Windward Land

overview: Tuulepealne maa is a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series about the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.

character: Extermination Battalion 2

title: Set Point

overview: On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.

character: Car Thief #2

original_title: Täna öösel me ei maga

title: Bank Robbery

overview: When a former fistfighter Madis leaves the prison, he feels he will get another chance in life. Nothing can go wrong this time. Madis will be accompanied by his nephew who has something completely opposite in his mind. A game begins where both the weak and the strong get more and more opportunities.

character: Security Guard

original_title: Pangarööv

title: December Heat

overview: The young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920's when on December 1, 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup. The film follows the fates of a young soldier called Tanel and his wife, a telephone operator named Anna, amidst the ensuing chaos which determines whether the country remains independent or becomes a minor province in the Communist Empire.

character: Firefighter Mait

original_title: Detsembrikuumus

overview: Melchior’s bride Keterlyn happens to witness an attack on a young man. The victim, who has lost his memory, does not know who he is and how he ended up in a Tallinn. A ring found at the scene leads Melchior to the trail of the nocturnal brotherhood, questions are also raised by the troupe of freaks who performed on fair day. Ominous signs suggest that not only is the stranger recovering from a murder attempt at risk, but Melchior and Keterlyn as well. At the same time, an inquisitor known as a ruthless witch hunter arrives in town. Melchior's ability to "speak to the dead" and to notice invisible traces of murder have raised the suspicion that he may be a dangerous heretic. And the place of the enemy of the church is at the stake…

character: Cardinal's Aid Frederic

original_title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

title: Ash and Money

overview: Film is based on "Unified Estonia" which was a fictitious political movement created by NO99 Theatre and a large portion of the public treated as a real political force. Its convention, held for more than 7200 people, was one of the largest theatre events in modern European theatre history.

character: Self

original_title: Kust tuleb tolm ja kuhu kaob raha

title: Zero Point

overview: Sensitive and restless Johannes is accepted to an elite school in Tallinn and expects life to go uphill. Instead, he becomes the victim of mental abuse by his classmates. In search of recognition, he goes to his old Lasnamäe friends, who spend their time doing drugs, hanging around, and partying, rather than focusing on schoolwork. At home, Johannes must deal with his mother’s deteriorating mental health. As the tension grows, he finds himself at zero point, where he must completely reset his life to build it up from scratch.

character: Olav

original_title: Nullpunkt

title: Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

overview: The 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.

character: Truck Driver (Shadow)

original_title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

title: The Shadow

overview: Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the Wild West of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious castles of German nobility that have sworn allegiance to the Czar, and to the depths of ancient forests where witchcraft is still practiced. Juhan is fighting crime and his own inner demons. He is considered mad and pronounced crazy. But by standing for justice and truth, at the end of the day, he is the sanest of them all.

character: Ruler of the Manor

original_title: Vari

title: The Polar Boy

overview: Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.

character: Police Officer #1

original_title: Polaarpoiss

title: August 1991

overview: August 1991, military coup d'etat in Moscow. When Soviet tanks are on the streets of Tallinn, Estonia, all hopes for independence seem to be lost. People in the only local television station, ETV, are facing their own choices.

original_title: August 1991

title: Uibu Farm

overview: Mart is dragged by his father to meet his grandfather for the first time since he was a little boy. When the three generations meet, Mart witnesses his father change in front of the larger-than-life personality of his grandfather. Are some relationships better left cold, dead, distant?

character: Father Johan

original_title: Uibu Talu

title: White Lie

overview: It's 1947 in Estonia. After the suicide of her friend, young student Marie starts to feel threatened by the Stalinist regime. She tries to find ways to escape across the sea, but it turns out to be more difficult than she expected.

character: Raivo

original_title: Valge vale

title: NO75 Unified Estonia Assembly

overview: NO75 Unified Estonia was a fictious political movement created by Theatre NO99 that a large portion of the public treated as a real political force. It lasted 44 days, during which various political technologies were introduced. The project ended with Unified Estonia movement assembly, with more than 7500 people attending. It was one of the largest theatre events in contemporary Europe.

original_title: NO75 Unified Estonia Assembly

title: Take It or Leave It

overview: One sleepy Saturday morning a 30-year-old construction worker Erik gets some earth shattering news: his ex-girlfriend Moonika who he hasn't even seen for the past six months is about to go into labor. She however is not ready for motherhood and if Erik doesn't want the kid either, the little girl will be put up for adoption.

character: Sven

original_title: Võta või jäta

title: Truth and Justice

overview: Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.

character: Kustas of Rava

original_title: Tõde ja õigus

title: Fathers and Sons

overview: Short film about the history of Estonian Border Patrol.

character: Noorem piirivalvur

original_title: Isad ja pojad

title: Morten

overview: A coming-of-age tale told in a magical-realism style about a teenage boy, Morten, who feels out of place among his wealthier classmates. While they enjoy expensive school trips, he spends his days in his family’s dilapidated farmhouse, finding solace only in a camera gifted by his grandfather, a lens through which the world seems brighter. When two girls enter his life - Miia, a street artist, and Emilie, a mysterious girl from the marsh - Morten’s world is turned upside down as he struggles to understand both his first stirrings of love and the changing world around him.

original_title: Morten

title: No Me Without You

original_title: Mind ei ole sinust eraldi

place_of_birth: Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]

title: Set Point

title: Bank Robbery

title: December Heat

title: Ash and Money

title: Zero Point

title: Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

title: The Shadow

title: The Polar Boy

title: August 1991

title: Uibu Farm

title: White Lie

title: NO75 Unified Estonia Assembly

title: Take It or Leave It

title: Truth and Justice

title: Fathers and Sons

title: Morten

title: No Me Without You