Mark 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

The story of two artists - Aino Bach and Kaarel Liimand, creative and life partners. The film began with material captured for "Maised ihad". Moments...

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

The elderly couple Johann-Voldemar and Ida have found a safe haven in their home in the village of Saulepi in Pärnu County, despite the winds...

Documentary film about Nordic volunteers fighting the Estonian War of Independence

Filmic study of time by Estonian director Mark Soosaar.

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

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

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...

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

Documentary about seal hunters off the coast of Estonia.

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...