Helle Kuningas

Anne quitte l’Estonie pour venir à Paris s’occuper de Frida, vieille dame estonienne installée en France depuis de nombreuses années. A son arrivée, Anne se rend compte qu’elle n’est pas désirée. Frida tente par tous les moyens de la décourager. Elle n’attend rien d’autre de la vie que l’attention de Stéphane, son jeune amant d’autrefois. Anne résiste à sa manière. A son contact, Frida va retrouver sa fougue d’éternelle séductrice.

Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the highest ranks of the Soviet Union and millions of ordinary people. Georg Ots took the stage when a huge country was recovering from the horrors of war, and his voice returned them faith in a bright future. Few people know what his life was really like.

In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a traveling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career?

A sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.

Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.

En URSS, au début des années 1950. Après avoir quitté Leningrad, le jeune Endel arrive à Haapsalu, une petite ville estonienne, où il exerce comme professeur d'éducation physique. Son passé d'escrimeur suscitant la curiosité des élèves, il prend l'initiative d'animer un club de fleuret dans le cadre des activités extrascolaires.