Mark-Toomas Soosaar

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Mark Soosaar (officially Mark-Toomas Soosaar; born January, 12 1946 in Viljandi) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and politician. He has been member of X and XI Riigikogu. Soosaar graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in 1970. He worked for Eesti Televisioon from 1970 until 1978 and Tallinnfilm from 1978 until in 1991 as a director and cinematographer before moving to Pärnu and founding his own film studio, Weiko Saawa Film. He is the director of Museum of New Art, as well the founder chairman of the Kihnu Cultural Institute . He is a member of Estonian Social Democratic Party.

Most Popular Mark-Toomas Soosaar Trailers

Total trailers found: 24

Christmas in Vigala Trailer (1981)

23 January 1981

The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment.

Anu Raud - elumustrid Trailer (2002)

24 February 2002

Kääriku Farm in Viljandi County is home to one of the cornerstones of Estonian textile art. Together with her elderly mother Valda Rau, the esteemed textile artist and lecturer Anu Raud reflects on life and death.

Volunteers Trailer (2006)

31 March 2006

Documentary film about Nordic volunteers fighting the Estonian War of Independence

Ülgepüüdäjäd Trailer (1965)

01 February 1965

Documentary about seal hunters off the coast of Estonia.

Liblikate kodu Trailer (2004)

13 March 2004

Mr. Vene's World Trailer (1981)

18 December 1981

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1902 - 1994), a self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge.

Life without… Trailer (1988)

25 April 1988

Estonia's suicide rate is one of the highest in the world. The author tries to trace the social causes of the tragic cases in the footsteps of one schoolboy's suicide.

Maised ihad Trailer (1978)

20 March 1978

Mark Soosaar's documentary essay on Eduard Wiiralt - a satanic clairvoyant and angelic artist, as he was described in Le Courrier Graphique magazine in 1937 by critic Pierre Mornand.

Kuldrannake Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

Boris Lehtlaan performs popular tunes of the time at an open-air concert.

Bridges of Time Trailer (2018)

01 July 2018

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them.

Eesti esimene kodanik Trailer (1992)

25 December 1992

It is September 17, 1991. Somewhere over Greenland, on a Finnair plane, Foreign Minister Lennart Meri is writing a speech for Arnold Rüütel, which the latter will deliver from the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York two days later.

Lasnamäe Trailer (1986)

28 April 1986

The director asks straightforward questions in a phone call to the lead architect of the district of Lasnamäe, Malle Meelak.

Man of Kihnu Trailer (1986)

03 October 1986

In 1986, twelve years after his film Kihnu Naine (The women of Kishnou), Mark Soosaar made this complementary documentary at the centre of which are the male inhabitants of the island.

Eesti Talufilm Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Harbour in the Fog Trailer (1987)

06 April 1987

The elderly couple Johann-Voldemar and Ida have found a safe haven in their home in the village of Saulepi in Pärnu County, despite the winds blowing from the sea and the creeping fog.

A Man and a Woman Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

A parody of several popular movies such as A Man and Woman (1966) and The Last Relic (1969).

A Dugout Canoe Trailer (1986)

20 October 1986

Jaan Rahumaa, an old boat master living in Soomaa, makes a dugout canoe from an aspen tree, an irreplaceable vehicle during the spring high water.

Father, Son and Holy Torum Trailer (1997)

20 March 1997

Father, Son and Holy Torum, by Estonian director Mark Soosaar, recounts a particularly ghastly episode in the history of the "new Russia.

Nõukogude Eesti Trailer (1972)

17 November 1972

Documentary presents the archievements of the Soviet Estonia in various fields of economy and science, education and culture.

Woman from Kihnu Trailer (1974)

08 March 1974

Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did.

Time Trailer (1983)

20 June 1983

Filmic study of time by Estonian director Mark Soosaar.

Vilsandi, mu kodu Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

A film about the wildlife preserve Vilsandi that used to be the oldest in the former Soviet Union.

Liblikapüüdja Trailer (1978)

25 October 1978

The story of two artists - Aino Bach and Kaarel Liimand, creative and life partners. The film began with material captured for "Maised ihad".

Meliorator Trailer (1973)

03 February 1973

The shortage or excess of water is one of the farmer’s main concerns, and solving this problem is the task undertaken by Vello Ott.