December Heat () 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 Yevgeny Knyazev as Grigori Zinovjev
Production Actual conscripts from Tallinn's Guard Battalion were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.
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