Herta Elviste
Also Known As: Hertha-Marianne Brandt
Biography: Herta Elviste (June 12, 1923 – October 29, 2015), was an Estonian stage, film and television actress and assistant theatre director whose career spanned nearly seventy years.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 12, 1923
Deathday: October 29, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Overview: Jaan Tooming's adaptation of the novel by A.H. Tammsaare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1978-01-28
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Postmark from Vienna
Overview: A comedy about two friends who made a bet over a rare postmark.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1968-01-10
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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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Summer
Overview: In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1976-05-10
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Landing
Overview: 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 than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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The Beauty Queen of the Mountains
Overview: A story of two women, a mother and a daughter, whose life together is a constant battle. Even the simplest everyday activity can grow into a big fight about making you sick, you may have a provoking adrenal gland that helps you feel that you are still alive. When Maureen's path crosses with Pato's, the old Mag is overcome with fear of being alone, and the fight for love is no longer a matter of choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Dear Mister Moon
Overview: When two half-sisters, thirteen-year-old white-haired Sigrid and seven-year-old black-blooded Saara meet for the first time, it turns out that their common grandmother has been taken to a nursing home. The girls come up with the idea to steal him from there and hide him in the attic where they can be with her undisturbed. Everything goes well beyond expectations until drunkards, thugs and extortionists intervene and the girls have to act decisively to escape from them.
Genres: Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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Men in Soldier's Overcoats
Overview: The story of the war film is about paths of the Estonian Shooting Corps (formed by the Red Army) during the WW-2 and how the fight forms an usual man to a loyal soldier. Ideologic aspects of the movie are more hidden than in ordinary Soviet war films but they're still existing.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1968-07-25
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Madonna Is Not Dead A.D. 2050
Overview: Two elderly people have decided to start having children. There was no time for this in their youth, they had to work hard to survive. Now, in retirement, nimble old people are making children for sale to spend the night with beer, cigarettes and cocaine. It is the year 2050. The third child of the elderly is about to be born and the selling price is rising. The moral and ethical categories have changed. An aging Europe needs children.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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Men from the Fisherman's Village
Overview: After a stormy night on the sea, a group of Estonian fishermen end up in a small coastal Finnish town. As they await the Soviet authorities to take them back home, some of the fishermen contemplate leaving their former lives in a Soviet era Estonia behind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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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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