Firewater (film)

The Firewater Estonian Tulivesi , 1994 is Hardi Volmers historybased thriller.

At the end of the 1920s the Finnish government proclaimed dry law which lastedyears. Estonian bootleggers living on the neighboring coast of the Gulf of Finland profited from prohibition which staggered Finnish economy. In the fishermens fictional village called Ropsi accedes a new honest chief of the border guard station, lieutenant Aleksander Kattai role cast by Jaan Ttte who wants to lay down the law and order. At the same time the most famous of the villages spiritsmugglers, Eerik Ekstrm Erik Ruus drives over the Gulf of Finland with his queuely firewatercargo. He has spirit cans in his boat and also behind it in the sequential position spirit smugglers call it spirittorpedo Lieutenant Kattai sees on those days Hilda Sibul, the Ekstrms fiance. This role performs by an actress Epp Eespev. They fall in love, but their good relationship does not last long.In this point start the thrilling escapes and catchings, the plots sting of the tails. Lieutenant Kattai finds out the very high governmental circles are involved to the Ropsi firewatersmuggling case. An Estonian minister Tui Lembit Ulfsak and a highrank officer of the Estonian Navy papa Nymann Ain Lutsepp profit the contrabandism and want to bull through dry law also in the Estonian parliament. Minister Tui agitates for dry law using extremely hypocritical methods indications to the temperance movement. Lieutenant Kattais background is interesting, so he opens himself I am lieutenant Kattai, a former soldier of armoured train unit number two. After the war I remained with the border of guard. Until now I was at the southern border, near Pihkva. There was firing every day, Russian salesmen and smugglers, red agents. Those facts indicate to the Estonian War of Independence. ........

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