December Heat is a 2008 historic action

Action film

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 drama

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 film

Film

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 about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares.

Plot

"December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n young independence

Independence

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 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."

Cast

• Sergo Vares as Tanel Rõuk.
• Liisi Koikson as Anna Rõuk.
• Ain Lutsepp as Julius Saarepuu.
• Piret Kalda as Maret Saarepuu.
• Emil-Joosep Virkus as Joosep Saarepuu.
• Tambet Tuisk as Specialist.
• Mait Malmsten as lawyer Jaan (prototype: Jaan Anvelt
  Jaan Anvelt
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• Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek.
• Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence.

Historic people

• Tõnu Kark as Major General
  Major General
  Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
  
   Ernst Põdder
  Ernst Põdder
  Ernst Põdder VR I/1 was a famous Estonian military commander in the Estonian War of Independence....
  
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• Priit Pedajas as Major General
  Major General
  Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
  
   Johan Unt.
• Carmen Mikiver as Elis Kingissepp.
• Ilkka Koivula as Otto Kuusinen.
• Yevgeni Knyazev as Grigori Zinovjev.

Production

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