Movies: Manfred Vainokivi

  • 2014
    Stealing Socialism

    Stealing Socialism (2014)

    Stealing Socialism

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    A jolly documentary that tells a story of Soviet time life style when stealing from the state was an act of honour for common people. Stealing from corrupted state helped to get by and held moral high. The common man felt that the state was stealing ...

    Stealing Socialism
  • 2023
    Stairway to Heaven

    Stairway to Heaven (2023)

    Stairway to Heaven

    6.32023HD

    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. ...

    Stairway to Heaven
  • 2023
    Gori the Caricaturist

    Gori the Caricaturist (2023)

    Gori the Caricaturist

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    A richly animated documentary about the extremely popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror. In the Fellini-like world of Gori (1894-1944), farce an...

    Gori the Caricaturist
  • 2006
    The Blue Hills

    The Blue Hills (2006)

    The Blue Hills

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    A documentary on the volunteer Estonian Army's defense against the Soviet Army in 1944 with an emphasis on its last stand in the region known as the Blue Hills of Estonia....

    The Blue Hills
  • 2009
    Bank Robbery

    Bank Robbery (2009)

    Bank Robbery

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    When a former fistfighter Madis leaves the prison, he feels he will get another chance in life. Nothing can go wrong this time. Madis will be accompanied by his nephew who has something completely opposite in his mind. A game begins where both the we...

    Bank Robbery
  • 2017
    The End of the Chain

    The End of the Chain (2017)

    The End of the Chain

    6.32017HD

    A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a breakthrough? The...

    The End of the Chain
  • 2021
    Estonian Funeral

    Estonian Funeral (2021)

    Estonian Funeral

    6.52021HD

    A wide range of relatives and acquaintances have traveled to a funeral, and as is typical of Estonians, the sad event turns into a comical one as the evening develops. The primordial disputes that arise among the Estonians take on hyperbolic dimensio...

    Estonian Funeral
  • 2005
    Mat the Cat

    Mat the Cat (2005)

    Mat the Cat

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    Martin a boy with adjustment difficulties, moves with his mother to a new place. Martin has a habit of always getting into all kinds of trouble, and on the last day of school, everything goes wrong. Martin likes the school principal's daughter Marta,...

    Mat the Cat
  • 2021
    On the Water

    On the Water (2021)

    On the Water

    5.32021HD

    Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door....

    On the Water
  • 2009
    Disco and Atomic War

    Disco and Atomic War (2009)

    Disco and Atomic War

    5.62009HD

    A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popula...

    Disco and Atomic War
  • 2008
    Valli baar

    Valli baar (2008)

    Valli baar

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    All towns in the world have legendary bars and drinking places. Tiny Valli Bar in Tallinn links different times and people and the film is a portrait of Estonian drinking scene. Shooting months turned out jolly, but also dramatic. One of the particip...

    Valli baar
  • 2023
    Mo Mamma

    Mo Mamma (2023)

    Mo Mamma

    02023HD

    Mother Karin and daughter Mari are facing the demise of Mamma, Karin's mother and Mari's grandmother. They both release their pain on each other, but in unconditional love, everything is allowed....

    Mo Mamma
  • 2012
    Baskin

    Baskin (2012)

    Baskin

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    Portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audience (esp women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by ones and cursed by others, has been imprisoned after a fabricated p...

    Baskin
  • 2016
    Family Lies

    Family Lies (2016)

    Family Lies

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    The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must u...

    Family Lies
  • 2009
    Jolly Old Farts

    Jolly Old Farts (2009)

    Jolly Old Farts

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    A portrait of two ageing cinema professionals who find motivation to live through endless quarrelling and challenging each other. An old film director and a camera man know a secret - when out of work you'll have to get fun and turn your own life int...

    Jolly Old Farts
  • 2012
    Beggar Writer's House

    Beggar Writer's House (2012)

    Beggar Writer's House

    02012HD

    Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate re...

    Beggar Writer's House
  • 2006
    Alien or: The Escape of Valdis in 11 Chapters

    Alien or: The Escape of Valdis in 11 Chapters (2006)

    Alien or: The Escape of Valdis in 11 Chapters

    9.52006HD

    After being whacked on the head with a shovel, Valdis no longer shows interest in the things that used to make his life worthwhile: alcohol, techno, cars and fights. His friends desperately try to help him regain his memory, but nothing works....

    Alien or: The Escape of Valdis in 11 Chapters
  • 2010
    September

    September (2010)

    September

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    September is a film about the complicated choices of simple people. The internationally renowned Estonian author, Jaan Kross (1920-2007) was arrested in 1944 by the Nazis. A year after the Soviet forces entered Tallinn and he was arrested again. The ...

    September
  • 2021
    The Best of Salieri

    The Best of Salieri (2021)

    The Best of Salieri

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    It is time to get out of the closet and show the world your teeth. The director, who considers himself to be Mozart, has been tootling with his films in the festival circuit for years, waiting for a big breakthrough. For an inexplicable reason, the w...

    The Best of Salieri
  • 2018
    Rodeo

    Rodeo (2018)

    Rodeo

    6.82018HD

    A documentary exploring the difficulties the newly-independent Estonia faced in the early 1990s after emerging from decades of Soviet rule. The film focuses especially on then-32-year-old and inexperienced Mart Laar, who became country's prime minist...

    Rodeo