Disco and Atomic War(Movie, 2009)

Name: Disco and Atomic War
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009
Duration: T01:18:00
Rating: 2.8

Original title: "Disko ja tuumasõda" (Estonian/ET)

1h 18min | Genre: Documentary

Rating: 2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Disco and Atomic War (Estonian: Disko ja tuumasõda) is a 2009 Estonian documentary film written by Jaak Kilmi. In the film, Kilmi talks about illegally watching Finnish television in Communist Estonia as a boy. He describes, amongst others, how his father made special converters for Soviet television sets to watch Finnish TV, his mother made TV guides for Finnish television that he would then sell at school, and popularity of Dallas and Knight Rider in 1980s Estonia. ()

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About Disco and Atomic War

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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Production countries: Estonia, Finland

Made by: Helsinki Filmi Oy, Eetriüksus

Original language: Estonian (ET)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), Russian (RU)

Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Finnish (FI), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/04/2009 (World premiere: 04/10/2009)

Cast: Kiur Aarma

Director: Jaak Kilmi

Producer: Kiur Aarma, Jaak Kilmi

Screenwriter: Kiur Aarma

Director of Photography: Asko Kase

Composer: Ardo Ran Varres

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Disko & tuumasõda"

Keywords: soviet union, pop culture, estonia, perestroika, anti-communism, cold war propaganda, finland, cold war, glasnost, television signal, docudrama

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