Eero Spriit
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Biography: Eero Spriit (born September 4, 1949), is an Estonian actor, theatre producer and director, and film and television producer. Spriit's career as an actor began in the early 1970s. Eero Spriit was born as one of two children in Pärnu to journalist, satirist, and politician Edgar Spriit and journalist Ester Spriit (née Tartu). His parents divorced when he was young and his father married dancer and dance pedagogue Elonna Goretski. From this union, he has a half-brother, Egon Spriit. In 1972, he enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn to study acting under course supervisor Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Aare Laanemets, Kalju Orro, Jüri Krjukov, Anne Paluver, Priit Pedajas, Lembit Peterson, Külliki Tool, Urmas Kibuspuu, and Peeter Volkonski.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Birthday: September 04, 1949
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Gender: Male
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All My Lenins
Overview: Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security reasons, five doubles will be found and trained for Lenin. All of them are finally sent to Russia to instigate the revolution. How will the real Lenin put up with all this?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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How the King Wished to Go to the Moon
Overview: A story about a king, who one day decides he needs to get to the moon, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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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, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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The Triangle
Overview: Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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Don Juan in Tallinn
Overview: 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 defend their honor by challenging him to a duel. What no one knows is that Don Juan is a woman in disguise.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1973-05-07
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Daisy Petal Game 2
Overview: A three-film cassette, "Daisy Petal Game 2" looks at three different lifetimes where a person is forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. Such moments come as suddenly and dramatically as the first falling in love. How to deal with these crises in youth, early middle age and golden years?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Overview: 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 sides. The Communists were forced underground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1977-06-08
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Made in Estonia
Overview: Fantasy and reality dance a wicked tango in this quirky comedy about the misadventures of Mill and Norm, two talented radio actors in Estonia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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Surmatants
Overview: A historical costume drama where the fragments of the adventurous lives of Bernt Notke, one of the most influential Late Gothic painters, and carpenter Michel Sittow are brought together by the story of the panel painting "Danse Macabre" by Notke and the way the painting reached Tallinn, Estonia from Lübeck.
Genres: History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1991-11-07
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