Jüri Sillart

Jüri Sillart

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Jüri Sillart

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Golden Beach
Director
Retroband Evergreen's reunion party is ruined when Viktor, who was once the band's frontman, threatens to blow the house up for revenge of his sad destiny.
Leida lugu
Writer
This film is about one of Estonia's best-known feature film directors Leida Laius, her work and activities. But in reality, this film wants to be about the difficult and volatile happiness of being a woman and a mother.
Leida lugu
Producer
This film is about one of Estonia's best-known feature film directors Leida Laius, her work and activities. But in reality, this film wants to be about the difficult and volatile happiness of being a woman and a mother.
Leida lugu
Director
This film is about one of Estonia's best-known feature film directors Leida Laius, her work and activities. But in reality, this film wants to be about the difficult and volatile happiness of being a woman and a mother.
Grisha
Director
An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.
The Sunny Kids
Director
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.
Awakening
Director
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.
Stolen Meeting
Director of Photography
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
In One Hundred Years in May
Director of Photography
Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis spreads rapidly, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?
The Gang
Director of Photography
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.
Requiem
Director of Photography
When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help at a farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids.
The Adventurer
Cinematography
This inventive, tongue-in-cheek comedy-drama not only reveals the charms of the Estonian countryside, but something of director (Kaljo Kiisk)'s sense of amusement as well. The hero of the title, Toomas Nipernaadi (Tõnu Kark) is first 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.
The Smacking Sea
Director of Photography
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.
Wild Violets
Director of Photography
It is the year 1947. The war is over but Estonian forests are still hiding armoured men. When the message comes that Western spies will arrive to support the local bushwhackers, security officer Rein Taim starts to lead the counter operation of the Communist Secret Police in order to catch the Western diversionists and the leader of the Estonian bushwhackers.
El hotel del alpinista muerto
Director of Photography
Habiendo sido llamado de emergencia, un inspector de la Policía llega a un hotel pero no encuentra crimen alguno; no obstante percibe que algunas cosas son un tanto extrañas. De todos modos sus intenciones son las de marcharse por donde vino, sin embargo un alud altera sus planes y le obliga a permanecer en el hotel. Unas horas más tarde el inspector encuentra el cadáver de uno de los huéspedes. Todos los que habitan en ese hotel pasan a ser sospechosos.
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Cinematography
The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides. The Communists were forced underground.
Time to Live, Time to Love
Director of Photography
Debora and Silver get into a serious car accident after a romantic night together. Silver escapes with a slight injury, but Debora's life is in danger and the doctors say there is no hope for her. Doctor Melts sees an opportunity in transplantation of dying Debora's kidneys to save the life of a professor who has a few weeks to live. However, the professor proposes a treatment for Debora that will exclude transplantation. The truth about the price of her life will change Debora's world.
Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata
Director of Photography
In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.
Tuli öös
Director of Photography