Disco and Atomic War

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, amongst others, 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 popularity of Dallas and Knight Rider in 1980s Estonia.

Disco and Atomic War
Disko ja tuumasõda
Directed byJaak Kilmi
Written byKiur Aarma, Jaak Kilmi
Produced byKiur Aarma, Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff
CinematographyManfred Vainokivi
Edited byLauri Kaasik
Music byArdo Ran Varres
Production
company
Eetriüksus
Release date
April 7, 2009 (Estonia)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryEstonia
LanguageEstonian

Awards and nominations

  • Disco and Atomic War at IMDb
  • Holden, Stephen (November 11, 2010). "J. R. Ewing Shot Down Communism in Estonia". The New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
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