Disco and Atomic War
“Cold War. Hot desires.”
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
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Cast
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Kiur Aarma
Narrator (voice)
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Killing Tartu
Jaak Kilmi
Narrator (voice)
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The Sleeping Beast
Men at Arms
Asko Kase
Alo Kõrve
Narrator (voice)
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Melchior the Apothecary
Names in Marble
Aleksi Bardy
Olger Bernadt
Jaan Tootsen
Narrator (voice)
Annika Sucksdorff
Horret Kuus
Liina Vahtrik
Narrator (voice)
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The Little Comrade
The Idiot
Manfred Vainokivi
Eduard Toman
Narrator (voice)
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Firebird
Windward Land
Jaak Kilmi Director · Kiur Aarma Writer Ardo Ran Varres Composer
Worldwide gross $3.1K · United States release September 4, 2009 · Produced in Estonia, Finland
Box office
Worldwide gross
$3,077
Production
Eetriüksus
Production
Helsinki-filmi
Production
Estonia · Finland
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Disko ja tuumasõda
Original language
Estonian
Spoken on screen
English · Estonian · Finnish · Russian
Release dates
Estonia · April 10, 2009
Theatrical
United States · September 4, 2009
Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
Canada
April 30, 2010 · Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
Finland
September 24, 2009 · Premiere · Helsinki International Film Festival
October 11, 2009 · TV
Netherlands
November 1, 2009 · IDFA Festival
Poland
October 13, 2009 · Warsaw Film Festival
Sweden
February 2, 2010 · Göteborg International Film Festival
United Kingdom
November 10, 2009 · Premiere · Leeds International Film Festival
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