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Disco and Atomic War

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

2009 |1h 18m |  Documentary

Videos

Cast

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Alo Kõrve

Narrator (voice)

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Liina Vahtrik

Narrator (voice)

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Eduard Toman

Narrator (voice)

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David Hasselhoff

Self (archive footage)

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Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Self (archive footage)

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Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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Teija Sopanen

Self (archive footage)

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Urho Kekkonen

Self (archive footage)

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Yuri Andropov

Self (archive footage)

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Arnold Rüütel

Self (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

Estonian, Russian, Finnish, English

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