Disco and Atomic War (2009)

Original title

Disko ja tuumasõda

Directed by

Jaak Kilmi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Estonia

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The filmmaker recalls growing up in communist Estonia where his family and neighbors risked punishment to watch Finnish TV. He explains how his father built antenna converters and his mother wrote guides for shows like Dallas and Knight Rider.

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What happens

Disco and Atomic War (Estonian: Disko ja tuumasõda) is a 2009 Estonian documentary film written by Jaak Kilmi. In the film, Kilmi talks about illegally watching Finnish television in communist Estonia as a boy. He describes, among other things, how his father made special converters for Soviet television sets to watch Finnish TV, his mother made TV guides for Finnish television that he would then sell at school, and the popularity of Dallas and Knight Rider in Estonia in the 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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