Lepo Sumera Trailers
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Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher.
He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (then Tallinn State Conservatory). After Heino Eller's death in 1970, he studied with Heino Jürisalu, graduating in 1973. He then did postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory (1979–1982) with the Russian composer Roman Ledenev. Sumera first came to notice in 1972 with In Memoriam, an orchestral tribute to Eller.
He is considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Eller, Eduard Tubin and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution. As such he was the last Minister of Culture of the Estonian SSR, and the first Minister of Culture after Estonia re-gained independence.
Most Popular Lepo Sumera Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
28 November 1985
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from.
10 July 1989
Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that the facility is threatened by an infection caused by construction errors in the waterworks.
26 November 1984
A family who, at the beginning of the story gives up the plan to buy toys, forms the frame for the film.
09 December 1987
The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning.
11 September 2003
A visual poem in a universe of realities. A woman in an abandoned city in Brazil returns to a world of memory and feeling in a place where trapped souls relive moments from the past.
01 January 1979
Ulvi Indrikson trains her daughters Kaire and Kaja and supports them at the competitions. Training in the gym and swimming competitions.
18 February 1991
A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.
01 May 1975
A unique film adaptation of Juhan Liiv's poetry, where literary symbols in poetry are connected with film images.
01 January 1976
A short Estonian animation about a rabbit who creates a mechanical being that struggles to navigate a frantic, pop-art world.
20 August 1984
Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime.
10 January 1977
It can sometimes seem as though all sorts of machines will be able to solve all problems. But this notion is wrong.
05 June 1989
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
09 October 2015
A dog, Popi, and a monkey named Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home. But one day it becomes clear that he’s not going to be coming home anymore.
05 June 1998
Based on the tales of Chinese writer Pu Songling, the film depicts the romantic relationships of a Chinese student with an undead girl and a fox spirit maiden.
01 January 1983
Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short.
19 July 1976
Coming into this world is an important event in a person's life, perhaps the most important. The film purely and sincerely captures the moments of birth.
07 November 1991
A historical costume drama where the fragments of the adventurous lives of Bernt Notke, one of the most influential Late Gothic painters, and carpenter Michel Sittow are brought together by the story of the panel painting "Danse Macabre" by Notke and the way the painting reached Tallinn, Estonia from Lübeck.
24 December 1986
A teenage boy named Vahur, who is from a seemingly upstanding family, becomes an accomplice to the vicious assault on an elderly man.
19 March 1986
A three-act film-essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno- Ugric peoples. The first chapter is dedicated to ancient Bearese of memory, such as Karelian cliff drawings, Kalevala runo song and Khanty bear feast rituals.
17 September 1979
Set in the post-war years when sovietization was still being resisted by partisans, often at the expense of a farming population intent on rebuilding.
15 September 1980
Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea.
14 March 1988
A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
01 January 1976
A whale-hunter dodges icebergs while tracking his prey.
04 July 1979
A satirical film based on the folk joke of the same name about greedy and hypocritical church servants and the gluttony of ridiculously selfish people.
18 November 1980
Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won't move in their home farm then it will be sold to strangers.
08 June 1977
The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides.
26 July 1993
Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather.
09 April 1990
Puppet film about pre-Christmas. Puppet world is united with natural scenes with kids, traditional fairy-tale land with gnooms and Santa Clause is revitalized.
01 January 1985
It is a parable about indifference
01 September 1990
Estonia in a turbulent era of change. Citizen A, a modest, indecisive person, with great difficulty and inner fear fits into the changed realities of the world around him.
01 January 1988
A short animated film about horrors of urbanized city.
12 October 1992
The highlight of Elsbet's and Albert's day is their son's visit. Every day, the old couple serves festive dinner to Lucas in a cozy dining room decorated with lots of flowers.
11 October 1983
As a result of the initiative of the youth programme of Estonian Television, a phenomenon known as "Hometown" was born in Estonia in October 1975.
18 February 1976
The First World War is over. A young soldier, having endured all its horrors, returns home to his mother, who has been anxiously awaiting his arrival.
10 July 1976
Estonian primitive and untouched bogs and folk songs. Composer Lepo Sumera, singer Anne Maasik.
01 January 1985
A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.
