Eve Kivi
Also Known As: Эве Киви-Антсон, Eve Kivi-Antson, Ээве Киви, Eeve Kivi
Biography: Eve Kivi (real name Eeve Kivi; born on May 8, 1938 in Paide) is an Estonian actress. In 1959 she graduated from Estonian Drama Theatre's learning studio. She has worked at Tallinnfilm and Mosfilm. Since 1955 she has played on about 50 films. From 1965 until 1972, she was married to speed skater Ants Antson.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paide, Estonia
Birthday: May 08, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Those Old Love-letters
Overview: A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the political changes of his country and his life after the war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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«SOS» над тайгой
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Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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It Can't Be!
Overview: The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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The Last Relic
Overview: A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1970-03-23
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Man in the Passage Yard
Overview: Grigory Mikhailovich Yushkov, who was killed in the passage yard, was considered dead during the Great Patriotic War. In those same years, under strange circumstances, the partisan detachment and the entire city underground were destroyed. They were betrayed by a man nicknamed "Centaur", who was never found. What are the motives for the murder of Yushkov and is he a “Centaur”? An investigator from Moscow will have to find out...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-15
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Padeniye Kondora
Overview: Действие происходит в вымышленном государстве, у власти которого стоит военный диктатор (характер ландшафта, растительности, тип военной формы и используемого оружия — прямая аллюзия на Чили начала 1970-х годов). Диктатор, проделавший долгий путь от мясника до предводителя хунты, уже давно утратил доверие народа и постепенно теряет веру в себя. Он одинок. Его монологи о власти и собственной значимости перед одним из охранников Мануэлем адресованы самому себе. Мануэль, как и диктатор в прошлом, — выходец из небогатого сословия. Он верит диктатору, верит в возможность своей карьеры, ради которой совершает один безнравственный поступок за другим. Но когда военные теряют власть под напором народного восстания, также беспринципно и легко предаёт диктатора и убивает его.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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The Day the Earth Froze
Overview: Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Ruslan and Ludmila
Overview: The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of Prince Vladimir, the girl is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor and the witch Naina. Three former suitors for her hand set out, as does Ruslan, to rescue Ludmila...
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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713th Asks for Landing
Overview: Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Ruudi
Overview: A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Overview: In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-21
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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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Identification Marks None
Overview: Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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An Ideal Husband
Overview: British MP Sir Robert Chiltern is known for his honesty and integrity. To match his wife, Lady Chiltern, who is an example of high morality. However, the past of Sir Robert, as it turned out, is not at all perfect. Famous socialite adventurer Laura Cheveley, with evidence of his long-standing dishonorable act, is trying to blackmail Chiltern. Not only Sir Robert's reputation and career are at stake, but also family happiness. His best friend comes to the rescue — Lord Goring.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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The Red Tent
Overview: Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Nazis and Blondes
Overview: 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 villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
Overview: After a long night with his old war buddies, Andres Lapeteus regains consciousness in the hospital. How has confusion, bewilderment and alienation developed between these men who once fought together side by side? Is this the inevitable result of the Stalinist regime, the influence of his social climber wife, or the effect of his personal cowardliness and conformism? What happened to Andres Lapeteus?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1967-06-19
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Lurich
Overview: Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler but he was also a sports-philosopher, health and temperance activist, an efficient sports manager, a talent in acting, writing and chess, a "world's citizen" who spoke more than ten languages and an athlete with enormous popularity. At least 14 wrestling clubs in Europe and USA carried his name. This film is an unpretentious attempt to recall that unique man, the first world-famous Estonian.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1984-08-20
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Etude of Life
Overview: In the war-torn Europe of 1944, a woman sees her life fall to pieces as she is forced to choose between her treacherous husband and an enemy officer.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
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The Firewater
Overview: 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 Gulf of Finland profited from prohibition......
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1994-04-14
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Naughty Curves
Overview: When Vaike, a student and athlete from Tartu, arrives to Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa speedway, the bikes are already racing with dizzying speeds. The same dizzying adventures will be ahead, when Vaike meets multiple-times champion Raivo, who has been dizzied with sports progress and young ladies, and with champion candidate Heino, who helps Vaike to prepare for competition. Vaike cannot “hold her horses” alone and counts for her sister Maret, who also in past have had helped her out from similar difficult situations. But this time also comes into play Maret’s fresh husband Ants, who is convinced that he no more mix up the twin sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Dangerous Curves
Overview: A romantic comedy about two rival motorcyclists who are in love with two twin sisters. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves and was the first film shot in the Soviet-designed Kinopanorama format.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-07-21
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What a Smile You Got
Overview: Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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On the Eve
Overview: The story is set in the 1800s.Elena and Inzarov,a revolutionary Bulgarian ,fall in love.After secretly marrying they decide to join the liberation, but on the eve of departure Dmitry dies. Elena takes Inzarov's body to the Balkans .
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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The Man Who Looks Like Me
Overview: A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. Spiteful old man announces that he will soon come to his end and expects his only son to take care of him. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention. The old prankster manages to create a number of embarrassing moments in an effort to ruin Hugo’s romantic plans. Andres Maimik’s and Katrin Maimik’s tragicomedy is an exploration of forced closeness, a pursuit of happiness and a road to forgiving through laughter, suspense and tears.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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He Wasn't Alone
Overview: The action takes place in the North of Scandinavia, where Hitler's Germany tried to keep its last frontier. Here by the will of circumstances gets pilot-Navigator uzbek Akbar Ibrahimov, whose plane was shot down in battle, and joins the ranks of the Resistance. Soon he managed to get an officer on a German submarine, and later report on the secret bases of the enemy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-14
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A Ring from Amsterdam
Overview: A young sailor suddenly gets involved into a spy game between KGB and CIA.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-04-11
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На Гранатовых островах
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-29
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Near the Dangerous Line
Overview: A group of Soviet soldiers are trying to prevent the chemical weapons trials by German army during WWII.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-02-22
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Little Requiem for Harmonica
Overview: 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 depicts the painful and conflicting contact between the two ages and mentality.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1972-10-23
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Captain of the First Rank
Overview: Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where massacres and bullying of people became a custom. Only thanks to his natural intelligence and perseverance, the illiterate peasant boy managed to avoid the fate of many of his comrades, who became drunkards and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, commander of the cruiser "Svyatoslav", himself suffocating in the difficult atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly fell in love with his messenger for his simple Russian soul, quick-witted mind, love for the homeland and hatred of oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground Bolshevik.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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The Paradise Apples
Overview: Political pamphlet based on the story of the Finnish writer Martti Larni "Socrates in Helsinki". Spring of 1944. In the paradise, which has long been settled by the philosopher Socrates, a fired soldier Vittori Virten arrives. The philosopher respected the newcomer with great respect, and they even became friends. Once having distinguished himself before God, the heroes get a vacation on Earth and go on a journey: the soldier decides to visit his family in Laconia, and the sage just wanted to see the world — did he think it once, and decided to join the soldier...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-09
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The Secret Agent's Destiny
Overview: After Tulyev's arrest, Soviet counterintelligence continues the radio game with the enemy, sending encryptions signed "Nadezhda" to the Western intelligence center. KGB officer Sinitsyn, friendly towards Tulyev, tries to persuade him to take his side — he arranges a meeting to a scout with Mariya and her son, whom he has never seen before. In addition, Mikhail learns that his father didn't die of his own death, but was most likely killed. Meanwhile, a young Soviet scientist Borkov, who spoke at an international conference about his innovative work, finds himself in the spotlight of the Western security services.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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Baltic Skies
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-06-06
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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...
Genres: Mystery Adventure History
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1966-05-30
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Dangerous Games
Overview: The capital of Estonia is occupied by Germans. Three local boys plan to blow up the cinema where the German soldiers often spend time at. However, their plans will change when they accidentally meet a mysterious stranger. A complicated and dangerous game begins where the rules are not set by the schoolkids.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1974-08-22
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In the Backyard
Overview: The story of the distressed residents living in poor slums during the economic crisis of the first Estonian Republic in early 1930s. It is the life in the backyard both literally and symbolically. Based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts and the drama play directed by Andres Särev.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1957-04-24
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Laulu sõber
Overview: Tõnu, student of agronomy, is a trainee at a flourishing collective farm. He finds out that there are many talented singers there among whom there is Malle with a specially beautiful voice. However, the local community club is closed and the singing ground has been turned into a pasture. Malle's father is the manager of the collective farm and considers singing a waste of time. When the collective farmers hear about Tõnu's conducting skills, they will act against the manager's will. The big song festival is going to be held soon and people want to go there. Preparations of the choir go well; however, the manager of the collective farm gives no permission to take part in the festival. Singers are losing their hope, but then comes a helping hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1961-06-18
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