Kosmos '68

Documentary about Estonian rock-music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional soviet cultural space.

A world of contrasts – pioneers placing flower chaplets to Lenin’s monument and Scott McKenzie “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear the flowers in your head….”

First Estonian beat-bands were born already in the early 60’s. Names like “ Juuniorid”, “Rütmikud”, “Optimistid”, “Mikronid”, “Kristallid”, “Virmalised” (Juniors, Rythmics, Microns, Crystals, Polar Lights) and a lot of others, not so well known, performed almost every week on youth dance-nights.

The repertoire was mainly acquired by listening and recording music from foreign radio-stations with the static noise of the radio.

Radio Luxemburg and a lot of other radio stations playing new music, like Radio Caroline and Radio Sweden, became windows to the music-world.

On 28^th of April, 1968, the Puhkeparkide Direktsioon (Tallinn Holiday-park Directorate) and Tallinn Beat Club organized a first festival-like youth-music event in Estonia and in whole Soviet Union.

Released in Dec' 2011.