Movies: Jüri Krjukov

Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security re...

Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title....

Classics of the Estonian plays about how a penniless man can become a millionaire and marry his loving girl....

Karoliine is a spoiled and selfish princess who will meet swamp ogres and sleep fairies, a mermaid and a werewolf on her journey. A bunch of robbers will take her to their cave. Despite having a smart and helpful guide Kaspar with her, Karoliine has ...

The second part of the film based on Eno Raua's children's book of the same name, which tells about the activities of three jolly fellows - Sammalhabe, Kingpool and Muhvi. The movie viewer can join their exciting adventures in saving the city from th...

The story is about a woman, who has to heat up the company's sauna, because the bosses want to entertain foreign visitors. The sauna is situated in a small village where her ex-husband is from, and an old aunt of his is still living. In addition to h...

In the final weeks of the existence of the Soviet empire, a number of unusual films were released. In this wry Estonian comedy, a woman with an unusual talent for mimicry which eventually earns her a career on the radio between WWII and the Russian r...

Karlsson is a very short, portly and overconfident man who lives in a small house hidden behind a chimney on the roof of a very ordinary apartment building on a very ordinary street in Stockholm. When Karlsson pushes a button on his stomach, it start...

Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff....

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Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler but he was also a sports-philosopher, health and temperance act...

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 purpo...

A musical comedy about singer Toomas Aringus and rally driver Mati Uibo, whom journalist Tiina Salum considers to be one and the same person due to their external resemblance....

A small village in a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is a newly invented machine for sugar. Returns from a trip around the world to visit an old dog Klaus. These four, along with Jul...

Young boy traveling on the ship called "Equator" suddenly witnesses the activity of the spy and helps to catch him....

Eduard Bornhöhe „Kuulsuse narrid" is a fun story about two unsuccessful, yet aspiring fools. Jaan is an incompetent and uneducated inventor, Saalomon is a talent less poet....

The aristocratic couple de Faublas returns from the honeymoon, but instead of domestic peace, they are intrigued by old relations. Love and jealousy, fidelity and infidelity, small- and big lies are emitting fine ladies and gentlemen, flooded by song...

The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute....

A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him step down from the rollercoaster in order to make the right decisions....

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his time, when poets wrote stories and poems to Stalin. The tribunes appealed to Stalin as the "great friend of the Estonian people", but for the majority of the people Stalin's name embodies the violence and lies that hi...