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Browse 11 movies from Eesti Kultuurfilm
Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.
Nov 2014
This is the story of three different generations of Siberian Estonian women whose ancestors were deported from Estonia as criminals in the 19th century. Instead of prison, however, they ended up in paradise - a fertile land where people quickly built their lives. 170 years later, the situation has reversed: who has already "got used to life here", but for whom, on the eve of the war, it is the last time to return to paradise, which on this occasion is Estonia.
Oct 2024
Parade on Freedom Square in Tallinn. K. Päts speaks. View of the parade – marines, artillerymen, cavalrymen, tanks pass by the grandstand. Wreath-laying at the monument to schoolchildren and teachers who fell in the War of Independence in Tallinn.
Jan 1933
Seal hunters J. Prants, E. Aaslepp, V. Aaslepp and A. Aaslepp travel from Aksi Island to the Gulf of Finland on a fishing trip. Travel between ice floes, pulling the boat on the ice. Catching seal pups. Hunting seals on the ice. Dinner and rest on the boat.
Jan 1938
View of the Raadi Manor House. Museum staff at work. Overview of the ethnography department's exposition.
Easter in Pechory. The film is divided into five chapters: "The Monastery," "The Pre-Holiday Market," "The Holidays Have Arrived," "The Crusade," and "The Holidays Begin." Konstantin Märska captured views of Petseri Monastery and the town, people at the pre-holiday market, buying animals, pottery, and other items, and people queuing at the liquor store. Cleaning work in apartments and on the streets are also shown.
Jan 1936
An observational documentary that portraits the Estonian island of Prangli and its small community, which becomes crowded during Midsummer. A week with endless daylight and charming folklore.
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In the film we see the production of newsprint, the brisk activity of journalists and the production of newspapers in a printing house.
Jun 1935
The joint burial of the victims of the explosion at the Männik ammunition depot of the Estonian Defence Forces at the Estonian Defence Forces cemetery in Tallinn on June 18, 1936. 49 coffins (9 of the deceased were buried elsewhere by their families) in two rows, mourners at the coffins.
A film about the Estonian forest industry, commissioned by the Estonian Forestry Association.
Jan 1937
film about the preparation for the anniversary and its celebration in Rapla on June 17, 1934. The creators of the community. The first store buildings. A diagram of the emergence of department stores. Bakers making bread, tasting cookies. Young people fishing. People gathering for the celebration. Commemoration of community figures at the cemetery. Anniversary ceremony in the garden of the Rapla community center, speakers, choir, orchestra.
Jan 1934