December Heat Explained

December Heat
Director:Asko Kase
Producer:Artur Talvik
Starring:Sergo Vares
Liisi Koikson
Tõnu Kark
Mait Malmsten
Tambet Tuisk
Carmen Mikiver
Ain Lutsepp
Cinematography:Kjell Lagerroos
Editing:Tambet Tasuja
Distributor:Ruut Pictures
Runtime:100 minutes
Country:Estonia
Language:Estonian
Russian
English

December Heat (Estonian: '''Detsembrikuumus''') is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état 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."[1]

Cast

Historic people

Production

Actual conscripts from Tallinn's Guard Battalion were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Detsembrikuumus . . 2010-01-01.