Ants Eskola
Also Known As: Erhard-Voldemar Esperk
Biography: Ants Eskola (until 1935 Erhard-Voldemar Esperk; February 17, 1908 in Tallinn – December 14, 1989 in Tallinn) was a Soviet and Estonian actor, singer and artist. He appeared in 25 films from 1930 to 1979. People's Artist of the USSR (1964). His younger brother was actor Olev Eskola.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reval, Harrien County, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia]
Adult: No
Birthday: February 17, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 14, 1989
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Residence Permit
Overview: A young talented doctor Rostislav Saveliev, who believes that he is not valued enough in his homeland, taking advantage of a tourist trip, stays in one of the European countries. But failing to find a job in his specialty, he is forced to agree to a proposal from the school of saboteurs...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-09
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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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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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The Broken Horseshoe
Overview: По мотивам повести Жюля Верна "Драма в Лифляндии". Французский аэронавт Жюль Ардан, путешествуя на воздушном шаре, случайно оказывается в Ревеле. Здесь он знакомится с доктором Петерсоном и его дочерью Лейдой. За женихом Лейды охотятся жандармы. В городе происходит убийство сына банкира. Подозрение падает на Петерсона. За расследование преступления берется Жюль Ардан.
Genres: Mystery Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Dead Season
Overview: Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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We Were Eighteen
Overview: It's 1940 - the first summer of the Soviet occupation on the Estonian island Saaremaa. Teenagers stepping in their lives have important decisions to make. Should they support the Soviet regime or join the resistance?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1965-07-19
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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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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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Ice Run
Overview: Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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Light Over Koordi
Overview: When Paul Runge, a soldier of the Red Army, returns home to Koordi after the war, he sees that, despite the new regime, life in Koordi hasn't changed. It's still a abandoned, uncultured Estonian village, where rich landlords still oppress the population. Runge starts talking about founding a kolkhoze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1951-08-27
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Life in the Citadel
Overview: Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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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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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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Indrek
Overview: Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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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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You Will Gain In Battle
Overview: Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation of engineers and managers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-05-12
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The Master of Kõrboja
Overview: Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won't move in their home farm then it will be sold to strangers. But the farm needs also a master, and Anna has been living in town for years. She comes back home and reunites with Villu, her friend from childhood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1980-11-18
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The Children of the Sun
Overview: Arno is a painter having an idyllic summer romance with dancer Helja on the picturesque coast of North Estonia when an unexpected visitor appears – a well-off young woman Margot. She tempts Arno to join her to have a good time at a resort town. Helja stays where she is and starts missing Arno. Northern summer is short – but long enough in order to realize one's feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1932-11-03
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Waves of Passion
Overview: About the booming of smuggling alcohol across the Baltic Sea between Estonia and the neighboring and alcohol prohibited Finland. Fiery love relationships are another theme of the film.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Mikhail Lomonosov
Overview: A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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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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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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The Red Violin
Overview: When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as a Red Violinist is to call the proletariat around the world to join with the revolution. It is only two things - music and revolution - that Eduard has dedicated himself to. His audience is enchanted by his performance and ignited by his ideas. With this knowledge, he travels Europe between the two world wars, accompanied by his faithful friends, his audience's admiration and the hostility of the authorities.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1975-01-20
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Between Three Plagues
Overview: The story of Balthasar Russow, an Estonian pastor from the 16th century, his life and life's work - writing The Chronicle of Livonia.
Genres: History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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The Rumyantsev Case
Overview: Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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Days of June
Overview: Peeter Saarmann has grown up in the Raidma family with the knowledge that his father was a casualty of war and mother died during evacuation. He is a university student who prepares to get married. During renovation Peeter finds a pre-war newspaper article about an enterprise that seems to upset his stepfather. The night before his wedding day, Peeter runs into a drunk man who calls Peeter an illegitimate offspring. When Peeter hears the truth about his real parents from his stepfather, he has the feeling that this could become crucial for his future plans.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Mehed jäävad koju
Overview: A story about the life of the "head" of a family who, in the absence of his wife, has to cope with both the care of his little son and all the domestic duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1956-05-28
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Uninvited Guests
Overview: Four Estonians who have escaped to Sweden during the war return to Soviet Estonia in the 1950s. The four saboteurs work for the Western Secret Service. Difficulties arise when they cross the border with an injured companion - the three have to decide what to do next.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1959-05-17
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Kunstnik Peeter Linzbach
Overview: Theater and film artist Peeter Linzbach in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, at an art exhibition, drawing. Ants Eskola, Ivar Kosenkranius and Veljo Käsper talk about the artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Underwater Reefs
Overview: Tõnis Hoopkaup is the head of a fishing collective in Tagaranna, a village on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. On the day of his wedding to fishing engineer Riina, he receives two important presents – a new trawling net, which he hopes will help him sail past rival collectives, and a cigarette case with an anchor on it. The case reminds him of his soaring pre-war dreams, when he was in love with the daughter of the most powerful man in Tagaranna. But her hard-hearted father put paid to their wedding plans. Now the bookkeeper Lauer has moved into the old house with his sister Lidia, and Tõnis wants to get close to her, as close as he once was with his great love … The personal and professional misconduct of a functionary who risks foundering morals is at the centre of love triangle drama featuring a wealth of local colour and complex characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1959-09-02
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The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Overview: The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who's knocking on Heaven's door to collect his share of souls: there will be no more souls, as God has come to doubt if humans are really meant to achieve salvation. If they aren't then how can they be punished posthumous and sent to Hell? There's only one way to make sure if sinning is the human nature, or is it that they simply don't want to better themselves - Devil himself must go down to Earth, in human form, and if he can achieve salvation then so can a human being... Based on A. H. Tammsaare's classic novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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Outlaws
Overview: Based on Jaan Anvelt's novel "Outlaws" which deals with the struggle of the Estonian Communist Workers' Movement and the life of revolutionaries in the Republic of Estonia in the 1920s. The film represents the maturation and decay of human soul in tense situations. The dark intersections and the dense, abandoned areas create a tumultuous tension field in which the characters find themselves. Their choices and decisions overwhelm them in one way or another. Where is the way out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Smacking Sea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Supernova
Overview: A talented young student of astronomy and an experienced strict professor both dream about discovering a supernova. When the student experiences beginner's luck, the whole research group will be excited. Then, opposite scientific approaches collide and decisions must be made - now the greatness of the scientist's spirit will open up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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Pöördel
Overview: Raivo Kotkas is the new head of the collective farm "Victory". His predecessor Mihkel Vutt has practiced command economy, production has gone down and the cattle has partly perished. Bookkeeper Olep is quite a crook who has played an essential role in the degradation of the collective farm - quite a few good workers have left work because of his cheating. Young agronomist Salme makes up her mind to leave the farm as well. The new chief wins the workers' trust and recovers their belief in the fruitfulness of their work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1957-12-02
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