Disco and Atomic War

Cold War. Hot desires.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

Kiur Aarma

(Narrator (voice))

Jaak Kilmi

(Narrator (voice))

Alo Kõrve

(Narrator (voice))

Jaan Tootsen

(Narrator (voice))

Liina Vahtrik

(Narrator (voice))

Eduard Toman

(Narrator (voice))

Gerda Viira

Oskar Vuks

Toomas Pool

Jaan-Joosep Puusaag

Einar Kotka

(Young Nikolai)

Aleksandr Aug

(Joosep's Father)

Birgit Veemaa

(Joosep's Mother)

Esko Salminen

(Self - Historian)

Sakari Kiuru

(Self - Finnish TV Former Head)

Arvo Sildnik

(Self - TV Engineer)

Edward Lucas

(Self - Writer)

Hagi Shein

(Self - Sociologist)

Georgi G. Potchepstov

(Self - Media Researcher)

Voldemar Lindström

(Self - Soviet Estonian TV Program Director)

Nikolai Haug

(Self - Inventor)

Åke Blomqvist

(Self (archive footage))

Ami Aspelund

(Self (archive footage))

David Hasselhoff

(Self (archive footage))

Karl Vaino

(Self (archive footage))

Leonid Brezhnev

(Self (archive footage))

Mikhail Gorbachev

(Self (archive footage))

Panda Nikander

(Self (archive footage))

Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Teija Sopanen

(Self (archive footage))

Urho Kekkonen

(Self (archive footage))

Väinö Purje

(Self (archive footage))

Yuri Andropov

(Self (archive footage))

Lieko Zachovalová

(Self (voice) (archive footage))

Aivar Võimre

(Self (archive footage))

Mauno Koivisto

(Self (uncredited))

Arnold Rüütel

(Self (uncredited))