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December Heat
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Wikipedia article
'December Heat' is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'tat attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares and Liisi Koikson.
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."
Cast
* Sergo Vares as Tanel Ruk
* Liisi Koikson as Anna Ruk
* 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)
* Taavi Teplenkov as Veidesoo
* Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek
* Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence
'Historic people'
* Tnu Kark as Major General Ernst Pdder
* Priit Pedajas as Major General Johan Unt
* Carmen Mikiver as Elsa 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
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