Lembit Ulfsak
Lembit Ulfsak (July 4, 1947 in Koeru – March 22, 2017) was an Estonian actor and director.
Ulfsak spent his childhood in Räpina, where he also finished the 8th grade. In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn 7th Secondary School. From 1966 to 1970, he studied at the Tallinn State Conservatory's Department of Performing Arts (4th class).
Ulfsak worked mainly at the Estonian SSR State Youth Theatre and Drama Theatre, as well as at Tallinnfilm. In addition to his theatre work, he acted in many films, the most internationally known of which are the leading roles in the films "The Legend of Till" (1976) and the Georgian-Estonian collaboration film "Tangerines" (2013), which was among the five best foreign language films in 2014 before the Oscar and Golden Globe awards.
From 1972 to 1973, he sang in the Band Amor Trio.
On June 1, 2019, a memorial bench installed in Ulfsak's honor was unveiled near his coastal home on the western shore of the Kakumäe Peninsula.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6947 |
| Birthday | 1947-07-04 |
| Place of Birth | Koeru, Järva County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia] |
| Also Known As | Л. Ульфсак, L. Ulfsak, |
2015
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
6.5/18
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
1987
While There is Time
0/0
The story of two Cossacks from Zaporizhzhya Sich, who had been taken as prisoners by the Turks, but were able to release themselves and get home. But...
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While There is Time
1978
Marshall of Revolution
0/0
Soviet propaganda film about the Red Army commander, revolutionary M.V.Frunze. The movie covers the period from October to December 1920, the capture...
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Marshall of Revolution
1986
Sofia Kovalevskaya
5.5/4
A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member...
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
1991
Craving Passion
5.375/8
A detective investigating the murder of a rich widow stumbles into a dangerous supernatural struggle between the woman's physician and her violent, se...
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Craving Passion
1993
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
4.2/6
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary...
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
1993
Marraskuun harmaa valo
6.2/6
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....
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
1976
Death Under Sail
5.7/7
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht wi...
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Death Under Sail
2010
Red Mercury
4.2/7
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Red Mercury
1973
Landing
9/1
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...
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Landing
1971
Windy Beach
9/1
The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to prevent...
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Windy Beach
2003
Amber Wings
7/1
A story about love between two people who accidentally met in old Tallinn.
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Amber Wings
2006
The Power of Fear
3.639/18
Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and myste...
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The Power of Fear
1983
Mary Poppins, Goodbye
6.8/54
A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
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Mary Poppins, Goodbye
1984
Mister Blot's Academy
5.818/44
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Mister Blot's Academy
1985
In Search for Captain Grant
6.92/25
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a dis...
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In Search for Captain Grant
1991
Grey Legend
3.7/3
Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes ove...
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Grey Legend
2011
Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
6.464/14
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 r...
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Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
1992
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
6.8/11
A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The adventures begin, when a boss of a bunch of crimi...
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Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992
The Lady in the Car
10/1
A young secretary, Helen, must take his boss's car to the garage. On the way she stumbles into unexpected déja vu adventures.
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The Lady in the Car
2008
I Was Here
5.6/11
Living alone in an Estonian slum and unable to afford basic needs, a top high school student reluctantly enters the drug game to make ends meet.
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I Was Here
2001
Ladybirds' Christmas
6.2/6
Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set ab...
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Ladybirds' Christmas
1979
A Woman Heats the Sauna
5.6/5
The story is about a woman, who has to heat up the company's sauna, because the bosses want to entertain foreign visitors. The sauna is situated in a...
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A Woman Heats the Sauna
1988
The Coincidence of Circumstance
6/2
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The Coincidence of Circumstance
1978
Kiri Giuliale
0/0
Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young...
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Kiri Giuliale
1987
The Joys of Midlife
5.6/5
Five people who have recently reached middle-age are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. The sombe...
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The Joys of Midlife
2013
Tangerines
7.681/620
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 le...
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Tangerines
2007
186 Kilometers
3.188/8
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 acce...
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186 Kilometers
1992
The Time of Your Life
9/1
Based on the works of William Saroyan.
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The Time of Your Life
2012
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
4/11
Adam’s first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she...
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Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
1985
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
4.5/4
Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of...
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Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
2006
Far from Sunset Boulevard
8.5/2
The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of...
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Far from Sunset Boulevard
2000
Saamuel's Internet
8/3
Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partne...
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Saamuel's Internet
1973
Don Juan in Tallinn
5.7/10
Don Juan arrives in Tallinn and soon the gossip spreads like wildfire. The local women trip over themselves to be seduced by him; the men race to defe...
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Don Juan in Tallinn
1977
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
5.75/4
The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both...
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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
2006
Lotte from Gadgetville
8.8/14
Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the vill...
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Lotte from Gadgetville
2013
Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
3.333/3
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...
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Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
2015
The Fencer
6.994/87
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at...
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The Fencer
2005
Mat the Cat
4/4
Martin a boy with adjustment difficulties, moves with his mother to a new place. Martin has a habit of always getting into all kinds of trouble, and o...
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Mat the Cat
2008
Nazis and Blondes
6/1
Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi vi...
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Nazis and Blondes
1990
Temptation of B.
5.231/13
The story of a writer who accidentally stumbles across the elixir of immortality and in doing so encounters the small group of immortals who have jeal...
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Temptation of B.
1980
The Wedding
8/1
An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.
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The Wedding
1979
Inspector Goole
4.6/5
Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have cont...
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Inspector Goole
2001
The Heart of the Bear
3.2/10
A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The nati...
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The Heart of the Bear
1994
The Firewater
7/4
At the end of the 1920-s the Finnish government proclaimed dry law which lasted 12 years. Estonian bootleggers living on the neighboring coast of the...
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The Firewater
1981
Let Him Perform
0/0
A group of thieves plans a daring heist to steal a valuable diamond from a wealthy businessman.
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Let Him Perform
1983
Secret of the Blackbirds
6.682/22
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family...
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Secret of the Blackbirds
1982
A Victim of Science
7/2
A satirical comedy about the monotonous, boring and largely meaningless life of small officials in a certain provincial town.
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A Victim of Science
2017
The Eternal Road
6.604/48
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist...
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The Eternal Road
1990
Regina
4.75/2
Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inh...
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Regina
2017
Blue Dress
4.5/1
Surreal worlds, elegiac images and romantic letters form a stream of suppressed memories. A young man discovers diaries and film reels of his recently...
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Blue Dress
1987
Peter Pan
6.125/8
The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook...
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Peter Pan
1989
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
6/2
The film is about one of the greatest social hot spots in Estonia during the Soviet times when apartments were distributed by the state, telling the s...
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I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
2001
Good Hands
8/1
The Estonians and Latvians join hands in this jointly produced Baltic comedy about love and theft centering on light-fingered Margita. Everything and...
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Good Hands
1983
Doubles
3/2
A musical comedy about singer Toomas Aringus and rally driver Mati Uibo, whom journalist Tiina Salum considers to be one and the same person due to th...
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Doubles
1992
Come Back, Lumumba
10/1
Aurora, the new head of the culture centre in a small Estonian town, and her ward, nicknamed Lumumba, change the lives of Rein and his father who are...
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Come Back, Lumumba
1989
Faulty Brides
0/0
Rich nephews and beautiful girls can not get married, especially when neither of them have actually seen each other.
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Faulty Brides
1974
Spring in the Forest
5.2/6
Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choices in the name of her true love, home, and the cont...
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Spring in the Forest
1978
Daisy Petal Game
5.5/2
A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The action of the films takes place in the 1930s in Estonia...
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Daisy Petal Game
1989
Doctor Stockmann
4/3
Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that the facility is threatened by an infection caused...
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Doctor Stockmann
1987
White Curse
8/3
The holiday season in the mountains is in full swing. The message of the head of the avalanche station that an avalanche could soon descend is not tak...
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White Curse
1985
Contract of the Century
4.5/4
In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Sovie...
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Contract of the Century
1992
The Price of Head
7.2/6
Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.
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The Price of Head
1983
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
7.045/11
Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a wei...
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Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
1991
That Lost Road
10/1
Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to know the daily life in the fisherman's village, falls...
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That Lost Road
1991
For Crazies Only
4.8/5
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.
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For Crazies Only
2011
Rat Trap
6/1
During an election campaign, a large sum of money goes missing at an Estonian politician's home party. The story involves some party guests who have s...
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Rat Trap
1991
Brilliant idea
8/1
He and she met by chance in a backwater hotel, poor. In their hunger ideas an idea is born — "catch the bait" crazed provincial melancholy men, ready...
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Brilliant idea
2005
Touched by the Unknown
6/6
Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seems that he has to wait forever. One day an alien ca...
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Touched by the Unknown
2001
Cobra
0/0
The series is dedicated to the tax police, and to the employees of the elite secret division “COBRA” (Quick Response Team).
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Cobra
1981
What Are Our Years!
9/2
Two cronies Tash and Nazar work as drivers on long-haul flights. They are young, and it seems to them that they have a whole life ahead of them, full...
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What Are Our Years!
1971
Lack of Wind
7/1
Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. But he is definitely not the guy who would just sit and wa...
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Lack of Wind
1972
Little Requiem for Harmonica
9/1
Students Jaan and Heiki in 1972, inexplicably, cross the river of time and arrive in 1944, the year of the German occupation of Estonia. The film depi...
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Little Requiem for Harmonica
1969
A Tale of a Chekist
9/1
At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard and soon becomes a chief engineer. It never occur...
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A Tale of a Chekist
1977
The Legend of Thyl
5.8/9
Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the L...
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The Legend of Thyl
1991
Love Is a Deadly Game
7.5/2
Ihor is a famous photographer whose works are published in a number of magazines and presented at international exhibitions. In the cycle of affairs a...
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Love Is a Deadly Game
1993
Candles in the Dark
6/2
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that...
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Candles in the Dark
1975
Juhan Liiv's Story
0/0
A unique film adaptation of Juhan Liiv's poetry, where literary symbols in poetry are connected with film images. The film set the task of conveying J...
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Juhan Liiv's Story
2012
Lonely Island
0/0
Five stories and many more lives that are affected, they flow by each other and sometimes intersect. In one way or other we talk about emotional scar...
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Lonely Island
1977
My Wife Became a Grandmother
0/1
A middle-aged literature teacher who devotes his free time to poetry is used to being the center of admiration for his family, especially his wife. On...
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My Wife Became a Grandmother
1983
Assol
4/1
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Assol
1982
The Song of the Summer
7/2
While suffering creative and emotional crisis, singer Katrin gives a poor performance at the pop music contest. She decides to turn over a new leaf an...
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The Song of the Summer
1981
The Smacking Sea
7.5/2
The Smacking Sea is a film about the work of traditional seal hunters on the smacking Baltic Sea and their life in the coastal village.
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The Smacking Sea
2006
Brothers: The Return
6.361/18
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family bac...
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Brothers: The Return
1986
The Dragon Hunt
9/1
The Central American country of Guadiana has decided to embark on a new path of development. The US special services are trying to overthrow the revol...
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The Dragon Hunt
1988
Sižeta pagrieziens
7/1
At fifty years of age, film director Ivars Jansons has been unlucky in both his personal life and his creative work. Something inside him has broken u...
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Sižeta pagrieziens
2007
Black Ceiling
0/0
Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute car...
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Black Ceiling
1998
Father
7/1
Story about a single father who restricts every aspect of his life and tries to raise his son in the same way.
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Father
1981
Boomerang
9/1
Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of...
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Boomerang
1993
Cabbage Head
6.5/5
A parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on a plot of land that belongs to a poor Estonian pe...
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Cabbage Head
1981
Murder on the 31st Floor
8.5/2
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, howe...
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Murder on the 31st Floor
1991
The Year of the Good Child
7/1
Roma Rogov was a talented and gifted boy — something that becomes clear by blowing up his teacher. A girl from Germany named Rosy casually fixes her d...
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The Year of the Good Child
1989
The Baltic Way
0/0
A chronicle of the 600 km human chain through the three Baltic states on the 23rd of August, 1989.
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