Kaie Mihkelson
Also Known As: Kaye Mihkelson, Кайе Михкельсон
Biography: Kaie Mihkelson (born October 12, 1948) is an Estonian film and stage actress. Mihkelson was born in Pärnu, Estonia on 12 October 1948. She graduated from the Tallinn Polytechnical Institute of Economics in 1969 and the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in 1974. From 1974 until 1977, Mihkelson was engaged at the Endla Theatre in Pärnu before leaving for the Youth Theater in Tallinn from 1977 until 1988. Mihkelson has been with the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn since 1988. She has also worked as a lecturer at her alma mater, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Mihkelson has appeared in a number of television and film roles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Birthday: October 12, 1948
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Gender: Female
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Sandra Gets a Job
Overview: Doctor of Physics Sandra suddenly loses her job. Finding a new job seems easy at first glance, but it turns into various tragicomic challenges. Endless job interviews bring the former researcher together with all sorts of situations and new personalities.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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Where Souls Go
Overview: A teenage girl has problems with her family and life when her little brother is born with a heart problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Hotel E
Overview: A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1992-01-20
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The Adventurer
Overview: Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the woman of his dreams. He wears a bedraggled white suit but generously pays for any lodging he needs or in one case, even buys a farm. Nipernaadi has a way with words and enchants those he meets with his wild stories about himself. Women find him appealing and the men are entertained as he moves from one locale to the next.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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Demons
Overview: When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't possibly be aware of the very existence of the demons inside them. Soon enough, they will know. But then it is already too late and their lives are suddenly caught in a fatal vortex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Love Is Blind
Overview: 30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a postcard to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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Letters to Angel
Overview: A man sent to Afghanistan years earlier converts to Islam, then returns home to fight a different kind of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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Flamingo: The Bird of Luck
Overview: A teenage boy named Vahur, who is from a seemingly upstanding family, becomes an accomplice to the vicious assault on an elderly man. Through a look into the boy's childhood and family, this film raises the question of how to become and remain a decent human being in the schizophrenic Soviet society where everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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The Joys of Midlife
Overview: 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 somber-funny road movie gives a good overview of the life, people and daily problems in Estonia at the end of the Soviet period.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1987-07-06
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Two
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Rat Trap
Overview: 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 serious money problems and are trying to come to terms with past mistakes. However, the self-confident politician strangely does not turn to the police, but begins to demand his justice by force.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2011-02-10
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Your Honor
Overview: The Judge (Mait Malmsten) is a man who represents strict rules and laws in the courtroom. However, his own personal life is an absolute mess. After the judge makes a decision to give a long prison sentence to a woman, the woman’s brother (Märt Avandi) starts following the judge to change his mind about the verdict. The judge stays adamant. The verdict is final. A conflict takes place between the men, resulting in the judge suddenly becoming a criminal himself. Unable to confess his crime, the judge escapes to Finland, where a series of comedic twists and turns lead him to a number of strange people and comical situations. However, the shadows of his dark deeds keep haunting him. To leave his dark crime behind and to fix his earlier decisions, the judge returns home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2019-06-17
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Karoliine's Silver Yarn
Overview: Karoliine is a spoiled and selfish princess who will meet swamp ogres and sleep fairies, a mermaid and a werewolf on her journey. A bunch of robbers will take her to their cave. Despite having a smart and helpful guide Kaspar with her, Karoliine has to get rid of her selfishness and inconsideration towards others. She is gradually becoming braver and good-hearted that will eventually lead her to the presence of real love.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1985-05-16
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Dark Paradise
Overview: After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Stairway to Heaven
Overview: With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2023-03-03
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The Shadow of Dawn
Overview: An incorporeal Shadow takes up a dangerous adventure through a mystical forest, fancy castle and dream world to save her frivolous owner from a cursed Beast.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2024-01-21
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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: 1979-11-18
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The Fencer
Overview: 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 a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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The Class
Overview: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Old Man Wants to Go Home
Overview: Toomas Simmo is a simple worker who has seen a lot of injustice and carelessness in his life. Yet he has not become bitter or lost the ability to understand and encourage other people who are struggling with their problems. When he lies in the hospital with an amputated leg, her daughter presents him with the most difficult choice of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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The Gang
Overview: Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Paul's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in the gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case. Based on the novel "The Glass Key" by Dashiell Hammett.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Stolen Meeting
Overview: A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1989-06-05
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Whatever, Aleksander!
Overview: Aleksander is a talented young man who has no idea what to do with his life after graduating from high school. Choosing a career, family, university degree, or joining the army seem out of the question. It seems like he has no interest in anything. Unfortunately, neither Aleksander's parents nor his friends can give him advice. For years, Aleksander has observed the way other people live their lives. This has led him to an understanding that he doesn't want to become one of them. He wants a different life. Only that he doesn't know what kind of life that is.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Awakening
Overview: It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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The Sunny Kids
Overview: A movie about the life in a small Estonian city in the 1950s. Young people face an instinct for survival that shatters ideals but can also destroy lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1992-02-03
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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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