Disko ja Tuumasõda plot
"Cold War. Hot desires."
Red-eared, all of Tallinn sat at night in the 1970s watching Emmanuelle -- a unique thing, because television in Estonia was under the strict surveillance of the Communist Party. The magic word was Finnish TV, which freely broadcast Western programs. The radio mast built by the Americans on the coast near Helsinki was set up in such a way that Northern Estonia could also receive signals. In Disco & Atomic War, director Jaak Kilmi reminisces through colorful archive footage of the time when he could watch Dallas on Friday evening and report weekly to his Finnish TV-less niece in southern Estonia the latest struggles between JR and Sue Ellen. Another boy, Joosep, remembers that his father was an electrician who illegally assembled converters for Finnish TV at home. Unbeknownst to him, Joosep had found himself at the forefront of an ideological media war.