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Disco and Atomic War

5.6 78 mins Documentary   2009
Eetriüksus   Helsinki-filmi  
Director(s): Jaak Kilmi

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.

Casts of Disco and Atomic War

Kiur Aarma

as Narrator (voice)

Jaak Kilmi

as Narrator (voice)

Alo Kõrve

as Narrator (voice)

Jaan Tootsen

as Narrator (voice)

Liina Vahtrik

as Narrator (voice)

Eduard Toman

as Narrator (voice)

Gerda Viira

as Urve

Oskar Vuks

as Jaak

Toomas Pool

as Toomas

Einar Kotka

as Young Nikolai

Aleksandr Aug

as Joosep's Father

Birgit Veemaa

as Joosep's Mother

Esko Salminen

as Self - Historian

Sakari Kiuru

as Self - Finnish TV Former Head

Arvo Sildnik

as Self - TV Engineer

Edward Lucas

as Self - Writer

Hagi Shein

as Self - Sociologist

Georgi G. Potchepstov

as Self - Media Researcher

Voldemar Lindström

as Self - Soviet Estonian TV Program Director

Nikolai Haug

as Self - Inventor

Åke Blomqvist

as Self (archive footage)

Ami Aspelund

as Self (archive footage)

David Hasselhoff

as Self (archive footage)

Karl Vaino

as Self (archive footage)

Leonid Brezhnev

as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self (archive footage)

Panda Nikander

as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Teija Sopanen

as Self (archive footage)

Urho Kekkonen

as Self (archive footage)

Väinö Purje

as Self (archive footage)

Yuri Andropov

as Self (archive footage)

Lieko Zachovalová

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Aivar Võimre

as Self (archive footage)

Mauno Koivisto

as Self (uncredited)

Arnold Rüütel

as Self (uncredited)

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