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Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the Warsaw International Film Festival, this witty, charming, and provocative film recounts how in the mid 1980's, the nation of Estonia still lay firmly in the grip of the Soviet Union, and the repressive authorities controlled virtually all aspects of Estonian life. The totalitarian government's power was derived in no small part from their ability to censor cultural life and keep Western culture on the other side of the border. Rock and Roll was but a rumor and the only television shows on the air were dreary propaganda. But one day everything changed. Just a few miles across the border in Finland, a huge new television antenna was built that broadcast western signals in all directions--including directly into the heart of the Talinn, the capital of Estonia.
Original Release
04/10/2009
US Release
11/12/2010
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Alo Kõrve | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Jaan Tootsen | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Liina Vahtrik | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Eduard Toman | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Urho Kekkonen | Self - president of Finland / Himself (archive footage) |
Esko Salminen | Self - Finnish historian, professor of media and communications / Himself - Historian |
Teija Sopanen | Self - Finnish TV hostess / Herself (archive footage) |
Arvo Sildnik | Self - television engineer / Himself - TV Engineer |
Edward Lucas | Self - the author of 'The New Cold War' / Himself - Writer |
Ami Aspelund | Herself (archive footage) / Self |
Directors
Writers
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alo Kõrve | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Jaan Tootsen | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Liina Vahtrik | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Eduard Toman | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Urho Kekkonen | Self - president of Finland / Himself (archive footage) |
Esko Salminen | Self - Finnish historian, professor of media and communications / Himself - Historian |
Teija Sopanen | Self - Finnish TV hostess / Herself (archive footage) |
Arvo Sildnik | Self - television engineer / Himself - TV Engineer |
Edward Lucas | Self - the author of 'The New Cold War' / Himself - Writer |
Ami Aspelund | Herself (archive footage) / Self |
Yuri Andropov | Himself (archive footage) / Self |
Hagi Sein | Self - sociologist, former head of the Estonian TV / Himself - Sociologist |
Georgi G. Potchepstov | Self - media researcher, professor / Himself - Media Researcher |
Leonid Brezhnev | Himself (archive footage) / Self |
Åke Blomqvist | Himself (archive footage) / Self - Finnish dance instructor |
Karl Vaino | Self - First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia / Himself (archive footage) |
Panda Nikander | Self - Finnish punk rocker / Himself (archive footage) |
Voldemar Lindström | Self - program director of the Soviet Estonian TV / Himself - Soviet Estonian TV Program Director |
Nikolai Haug | Self - inventor / Himself - Inventor |
Ronald Reagan | Himself (archive footage) / Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kiur Aarma | Producer |
Aleksi Bardy | Producer |
Annika Sucksdorff | Producer |