The film is from the ERR archive
Translation Liis
Estonian text posted 17.02.2018
"Ilus on maa" – "Beautiful land“ In the context of the EV 100 centennial a look at the start of the last thirty years is useful. The film was made in 1985.
Rein Maran’s film was commissioned to introduce life in the ESSR in the style of socialistic realism. The time still left to the upheavals of the revolutionary years was not long. A useful retrospective look back for those who were participants themselves in the events, in addition many well-known nature views…
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The message then from the author might be read as that in order to survive, we must not loose touch with the rest of life. It is not possible today to live wholly as our ancestors, only obeying the laws of living nature, but to loose the ties to this would also be a great folly since it is the source of the inner power of man.