Disco and Atomic War

Disco and Atomic War
Disko ja tuumasõda
Directed by	Jaak Kilmi
Written by	Kiur Aarma, Jaak Kilmi
Produced by	Kiur Aarma, Aleksi Bardy, Annika Sucksdorff
Cinematography	Manfred Vainokivi
Edited by	Lauri Kaasik
Music by	Ardo Ran Varres
Production company	Eetriüksus
Release date	April 7, 2009 (Estonia)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Estonia
Language	Estonian

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.

Awards and nominations

• 2009 Warsaw Film Festival Documentary Competition: Best Documentary
• 2009 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival: Silver Eye for Best Full-Length Documentary
• 2009 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, full-length Baltic films: nomination, International Federation of Film Critics Best Baltic Film
• 7th EBS International Documentary Festival: Spirit Award

External links

• 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.