Imre Sooäär
Acting
Biography
Imre Sooäär (March 13, 1969, Tallinn – November 10, 2025) was an Estonian businessman and politician. He was a member of X, XI, XIII, XIII and XIV Riigikogu. He had previously been a member of the Res Publica Party and was a member of the Estonian Reform Party.
Known For
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
Firebird
Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. "The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together ... not only tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands ... to gather and to sing and to give this nation a new spirit," remarks Mart Laar, a Singing Revolution leader featured in the film and the first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Estonia. "This was the idea of the Singing Revolution." James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's "The Singing Revolution" tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom--and helped topple an empire along the way.
The Singing Revolution
On a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors.
Here We Are
In 1919 Estonia, as Bolsheviks' riots sweep through the country, a Baltic German father goes to no end to ensure his daughter's safety.
Pädaste
Books and magazines are being published, clubs opening, and hot dykes and cute boys are talking sex: this is the new USSR. Shot during a two-week train trip through Moscow, Riga and Tallinn, Peloso's documentary is an engaging look at the emerging post-Soviet gay and lesbian community, peristroika having, in a limited way, opened the closet door.