tallinn estonia key people margit vremmert ceo website www.tallinnfilm.ee tallinnfilm is the oldest surviving film studio in estonia . originally founded as estonian culture film in 1931 the studio was nationalized in 1940 after estonia was forced the into soviet union . 1 during the first year of soviet occupation 1940 1941 eesti kultuurfilm was taken over by the communist party and renamed kinokroonika eesti stuudio the estonian newsreel studio . in 1942 during the german occupation in world war ii was renamed kinokroonika tallinna stuudio the tallinn newsreel studio and called tallinna kinostuudio the tallinn film studio in 1947 again by the soviets . the tallinn film studio was renamed kunstiliste ja kroonikafilmide tallinna kinostuudio tallinn feature and newsreel film studio in 1954 and in 1963 was renamed again tallinnfilm 2 during the soviet era the studio was the only major movie production house in estonia leading to its being responsible for almost all feature length movies of the time . most of the rest were produced by eesti televisioon . most notable feature films produced by tallinnfilm during the soviet era were viimne reliikvia the last relic released in 1969 by tallinnfilm . the movie set the absolute box office record for the entire soviet union at the time by selling 44 9 million tickets . 3 4 it was successfully distributed by the soviet film export internationally in more than 60 countries . spring 1969 estonian kevade directed by arvo kruusement sold 558 000 tickets in estonia total population 1.34 million 5 and in 1971 8 100 000 in soviet union . 6 after estonia regained independence in 1991 tallinnfilm terminated its production activities and concentrated on the restoration of its film stock and film distribution . since 2004 tallinnfilm acts as art house cinema operator . the owner of tallinnfilm is estonian film foundation . 7 references edit rollberg peter 2008 . historical dictionary of russian and soviet cinema . rowman & littlefield . p. 682 . isbn 0 8108 6072 4 . rahvusarhiiv . retrieved 6 october 2016 . rieuwerts sigrid ; stein helga 1 january 2000 . bridging the cultural divide our common ballad heritage . olms . retrieved 6 october 2016 via google books . viimne reliikvia . 16 july 1971 . retrieved 6 october 2016 via imdb . most requested statistics statistics estonia . retrieved 6 october 2016 . kevade . 1 january 2000 . retrieved 6 october 2016 via imdb . tallinnfilm . retrieved 5 july 2009 . external links edit official website see also edit v t e film studios of the soviet union russian sfsr central studio for documentary film gorky film studio lenfilm lennauchfilm mosfilm pilot south siberian film studio soyuzmultfilm studio ekran sverdlovsk film studio ukrainian ssr dovzhenko film studios halychyna film film studio kyivnaukfilm national cinematheque of ukraine ukranimafilm odessa film studio ukrtelefilm yalta film studio other republics armenfilm armenian ssr azerbaijanfilm azerbaijan ssr belarusfilm byelorussian ssr tallinnfilm estonian ssr gruziya film georgian ssr kazakhfilm kazakh ssr kirghizfilm kirghiz ssr riga film studio latvian ssr lithuanian film studios lithuanian ssr moldova film moldavian ssr tajikfilm tajik ssr turkmenfilm turkmen ssr uzbekfilm uzbek ssr this article about a film production company or film distributor is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this estonia related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tallinnfilm & oldid 742939356 categories film production companies of estoniafilm production companies of the soviet unionmedia in tallinnmedia companies established in 19311930s establishments in estonia1931 establishments in the soviet unionfilm company stubsestonia stubshidden categories articles containing estonian language textall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutscheestifran ais edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 19 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view