December Heat (Estonian: Detsembrikuumus) is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares and Liisi Koikson.
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| Directed by | Asko Kase |
| Written by | Mihkel Ulman Lauri Vahtre |
| Produced by | Artur Talvik |
| Starring | Sergo Vares Liisi Koikson Tõnu Kark Mait Malmsten Tambet Tuisk Carmen Mikiver Ain Lutsepp |
| Cinematography | Kjell Lagerroos |
| Edited by | Tambet Tasuja |
| Distributed by | Ruut Pictures |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Estonia |
| Languages | Estonian Russian English |
Plot
edit"December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether Estonian young independence continues to exist or we become a province with minor importance of big communist Russia. Independence which seems so self-evident today depends at that moment on couple of random coincidences."[1]
Cast
edit- Sergo Vares as Tanel Rõuk
- Liisi Koikson as Anna Rõuk
- Ain Lutsepp as Julius Saarepuu
- Piret Kalda as Maret Saarepuu
- Emil-Joosep Virkus as Joosep Saarepuu
- Tambet Tuisk as Specialist
- Mait Malmsten as lawyer Jaan (prototype: Jaan Anvelt)
- Taavi Teplenkov as Veidesoo
- Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek
- Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence
Historic people
- Tõnu Kark as Major General Ernst Põdder
- Priit Pedajas as Major General Johan Unt
- Carmen Mikiver as Elsa Kingissepp
- Ilkka Koivula as Otto Kuusinen
- Yevgeni Knyazev as Grigori Zinovjev
Production
editActual conscripts from Tallinn's Guard Battalion were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.
Notes and references
edit- ^ "Detsembrikuumus". film.com. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
External links
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