1944年……德军与苏联列宁格勒方面军为争夺纳尔瓦地峡进行了一连串战斗。7月，苏军攻占了纳尔瓦，这座古城九百年来一直是俄罗斯和西方世界的分界线。纳尔瓦身后的坦能堡防线是爱沙尼亚首都塔林的最后防线，一群20岁出头的爱沙尼亚青年人志愿加入武装党卫军亲卫队第20师，开始在东线迎头痛击苏军装甲部队，为反抗苏联的占领而战。
这不是爱沙尼亚第一次沦为东方和西方、德意志人和斯拉夫人交战的战场。从楚德湖的冰上大战算起，这一战斗已持续了七百多年，夹在中间的爱沙尼亚人也不可避免地被双方裹挟其中，成为历史的牺牲品。……
到了9月，由于芬兰宣布停止同德国的军事合作并签订莫斯科停战协定，腹背受敌的德军决定撤出爱沙尼亚。苏军尾随着德军一路前进直至爱沙尼亚的首都塔林，红军中的叶沙尼亚（俄罗斯化的爱沙尼亚人）士兵也亲眼见证了，那面象征着爱沙尼亚民族独立的蓝、黑、白三色旗，于德军撤离的9月18日在塔林市的象征——赫尔曼塔悬挂了四天之后，终于在9月22日被苏联的红旗所取代。……
占领塔林，并非苏德双方在爱沙尼亚的最后一战。……11月，在萨雷马岛泥泞、茂密的森林中，叶沙尼亚士兵顶着德军舰艇的炮火，驱逐了爱沙尼亚最后一批德军。大规模的战事终于结束了，但和平和自由仍未降临这片小小的国土，战争给人们带来的伤痛仍难以抚平……
这，就是爱沙尼亚人的1944年。

根据爱沙尼亚女人厄娜的记忆改编，讲述了大批民众被放逐到西伯利亚的故事和这批民众如何在饥饿、寒冷、冷漠、失去友情和自由中生存，当所有的希望消失殆尽，他们又如何继续活下去的故事。

The main character, Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl. Everything else is a discovery during a life that runs the course of a century - a life that has quite a lot of surprises in store for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius - a man who is far from indifferent when it comes to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have born soldiers' gruff boots and gentleman's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working class commune. And as freedom comes, real estate crooks start sniffing around the place. The only things that remain unchanged in these turbulent times are the cinema hall projecting living images on the screen and Julius's quiet love for Helmi. Director Hardi Volmer's historical love story combines the grotesque of early silent films with the melodrama of the golden age of cinema with elements of both the epic and the comic.

With a title taken from a Latin poem by Virgil, Sulev Keedus directed this Estonian drama about a youth, Maecenas (Mait Merekulski), who is sent from the Russian mainland to a remote Estonian island where the only resident is an old man, Jakub (Evald Aavik), whose memories surface in flashbacks, revealing his past as a missionary collecting Zulu songs. These images are contrasted with the more recent traumatic events experienced by Maecenas. Shown at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

《秋天的舞会》是一部爱沙尼亚电影，这部电影讲述了前苏联时代住在一个塔楼里的六位居民的故事，他们的生活互相影响，但他们都感到孤独。年轻的作家马提在他前妻的窗外，试图引诱其他女子，但他未能成功。卡斯克是一位生活单调的独身理发师，他被一位年轻的女孩所吸引，但他被人们误解为恋童癖。单亲母亲劳拉在电视上看肥皂剧，由于她不信任男子，她拒绝男人们的示爱。建筑师马里尔思考是人类的福址，但他却忘记了自己的妻子，他的妻子则试图从衣物保管员特奥获得了安慰。妇女们喜欢特奥，但是他的社会地位低下，她们并不把他当一回事。

一个芬兰女人为了逃避在莫斯科的一段秘密婚外情，登上了前往北极港口摩尔曼斯克的火车。她被迫与一名俄罗斯矿工在狭小的卧铺车厢里度过漫长的旅程。这次意外的邂逅使他们开始面对，自己所渴望的，人与人之间接触的真相。