December Heat
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.
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| Directed by | Asko Kase |
| Produced by | Artur Talvik |
| Written by | Mihkel Ulman Lauri Vahtre |
| 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 |
| Language | Estonian Russian English |
Plot
"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
- 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).
- 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 Elis Kingissepp.
- Ilkka Koivula as Otto Kuusinen.
- Yevgeni Knyazev as Grigori Zinovjev.
Production
Actual conscripts from Tallinn's Guard Battalion were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.
Notes and references
- "Detsembrikuumus". film.com. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
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