December Heat

December Heat (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."

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.