Mark-Toomas Soosaar Movies

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

Boris Lehtlaan performs popular tunes of the time at an open-air concert.

The director asks straightforward questions in a phone call to the lead architect of the district of Lasnamäe, Malle Meelak. The topics include...

The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of...

Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero...

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1902 - 1994), a self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge. For...

Estonia's suicide rate is one of the highest in the world. The author tries to trace the social causes of the tragic cases in the footsteps of one...

In 1986, twelve years after his film Kihnu Naine (The women of Kishnou), Mark Soosaar made this complementary documentary at the centre of which are...

Documentary film about Nordic volunteers fighting the Estonian War of Independence

A parody of several popular movies such as A Man and Woman (1966) and The Last Relic (1969).

Documentary about seal hunters off the coast of Estonia.

Filmic study of time by Estonian director Mark Soosaar.

Jaan Rahumaa, an old boat master living in Soomaa, makes a dugout canoe from an aspen tree, an irreplaceable vehicle during the spring high water.

Mark Soosaar's documentary essay on Eduard Wiiralt - a satanic clairvoyant and angelic artist, as he was described in Le Courrier Graphique magazine...

Father, Son and Holy Torum, by Estonian director Mark Soosaar, recounts a particularly ghastly episode in the history of the "new Russia." The film...

Kääriku Farm in Viljandi County is home to one of the cornerstones of Estonian textile art. Together with her elderly mother Valda Rau, the...

A film about a wildlife preserve Vilsandi that used to be the oldest in the former Soviet Union.