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December 2007 (USA) morePlot:
Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when... more | full synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Estonia
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Peace
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Soviet Union
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Cold War
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On DVD: "Our Man in Havana," "The Singing Revolution" (From IFC. 3 February 2009, 6:55 AM, PST)
One Night Cinema Brings More Independent and Foreign Film to Phoenix
(From Get The Big Picture. 10 September 2008, 12:09 AM, PDT)
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Serious Singalong moreCast
(Credited cast)| Heiki Ahonen | ... | Himself | |
| Gustav Ernesaks | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Linda Hunt | ... | Narrator | |
| Mari-Ann Kelam | ... | Herself | |
| Tunne Kelam | ... | Himself | |
| Mart Laar | ... | Himself | |
| Marju Lauristin | ... | Herself | |
| Ivo Linna | ... | Himself | |
| Tiia-Ester Loitme | ... | Herself | |
| Alo Mattiisen | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Lennart Meri | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Lagle Parek | ... | Herself | |
| Arnold Rüütel | ... | Himself | |
| Edgar Savisaar | ... | Himself | |
| Imre Sooäär | ... | Himself | |
| Hirvo Surva | ... | Himself | |
| Vaino Väljas | ... | Himself | |
| Heinz Valk | ... | Himself | |
| Trivimi Velliste | ... | Himself |
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It's been a few hundred years since the US had to figuratively sing for its independence, but less than 2 decades since Estonians finally shed the Soviet yoke and found freedom. That the country just south of Finland and between Germany and Russia achieved their freedom not by force but as it were by culture is more remarkable than its million people facing off a country of hundreds of million. Thus forms the outline of a dynamic documentary about Estonian revolution.
The thousands of Estonians who met every five years in Tartu, as many as 30,000, sang patriotic songs despite cruel occupations by Germany and Soviet Russia. The symbolic resistance was accompanied by some deft diplomacy during Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost or freedom of speech and the break up of the USSR in the early 1990's.
James Trusty and Maureen Castle Trusty's documentary assembles archival footage of the struggle in the 20th century, uses the usual talking heads, some of whom were freedom fighters, and has the good sense to have an understated Linda Hunt narration. When these innocent throngs sing their nationalist songs, cinemaphiles can't but think of the French singing La Marseillaise at Rick's Cafe in Casablanca.
It all works to the extent that you will never forget the little country that could.