| December Heat | |
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| Directed by | Asko Kase | 
| Written by | Mihkel Ulman Lauri Vahtre  | 
| Produced by | Artur Talvik | 
| Starring | Sergo Vares Liisi Koikson Tõnu Kark Mait Malmsten Tambet Tuisk Carmen Mikiver Ain Lutsepp  | 
| Cinematography | Kjell Lagerroos | 
| Edited by | Tambet Tasuja | 
| Distributed by | Ruut Pictures | 
Release date  | 
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Running time  | 100 minutes | 
| Country | Estonia | 
| Languages | Estonian Russian English  | 
December Heat (Estonian: Detsembrikuumus) is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares and Liisi Koikson.
Plot
"December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether Estonian young independence 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."[1]
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)
 - Taavi Teplenkov as Veidesoo
 - Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek
 - Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence
 
Historic people
- Tõnu Kark as Major General Ernst Põdder
 - Priit Pedajas as Major General Johan Unt
 - Carmen Mikiver as Elsa 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.
Notes and references
- ↑ "Detsembrikuumus". film.com. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
 
External links
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