A startlingly honest and open depiction of Estonian village life in the 1960s. The film was banned on sight, and never even edited before 1989.

Tristan Priimägi

The personnel of the workers’ diner at the V. Klementi Textile Factory makes daily efforts to guarantee food on the table at lunchtime, in spite of disintegrating equipment and the constant shortage of foodstuffs.

Tristan Priimägi

In a phone call to the head architect of the Tallinn Lasnamäe district, Malle Meelak, the filmmaker Mark Soosaar asks direct questions about Lasnamäe and gets unexpectedly direct answers because Meelak is unaware that the call is being recorded. Later on, she gives a public interview to Soosaar in front of the camera, with words that are diametrically opposite to the opinions offered in the call.

Tristan Priimägi

Portrait of Aleksandra Sadovskaya, Shura, at her workplace – on top of a gigantic ash hill in the mining region of Kiviõli.

Tristan Priimägi