December Heat

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.

December Heat
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	16 October 2008 (2008-10-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Estonia
Languages	Estonian Russian English

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.