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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

"Viimne reliikvia" or "The Last Relic" in English is one of the best Estonian films during the times. With very beautiful music and actors it will be long memorable even for foreigners to say nothing about Estonians. Some of the tag-lines from this film have become as proverbs in Estonia. For me, as Estonian, "The Last Relic" always makes a warm feeling inside. It remembers the times we were under foreign powers. Together we have overcome them and are free now. We are small, yes, but sturdy. I have seen it 4 times so far and would watch it again and again..I like the fact that there are also Latvians acting together with Estonians, it somehow.. unites. There are also English subtitles available.

I'm Estonian and i live in capital of Estonia/Eesti/Estland(Tallinn)I think that Viimne Reliikvia is the best Estonian movie ever that ever made.Agnes and Gabriel mean so much to Estonians to so much very much. movie year is 1969 wow old movie,but good very.music is good there all is good there.movie is actually funny too.half comedy.i recommend this movie to everyone even to Americans.songs are very good there. Viimne Reliikvia is maybe Eve Kivi's best known role.same famous like in Dzunglistaar.i also like Estonian movies 'Sigade Revolutsioon' like 'Kevade','Suvi,'Sügis' and 'Nimed Marmortahvlil'.My father likes 'Metskannikesed' and i think that Vanad Ja Kobedad is not good movie at all.

The movie is great, but half of it is far away from the book. They had the main point: Agnes has to marry von Mönnikhusen for the sacred bones to get back to the monastery; Agnes escapes with Gabriel; falls in love and so on. But those guys forgot that Agnes`s father is alive and HE asked Gabriel to became one of his men, not von Mönnikhusen. But: Ivo Shenckenberg is actually historical person and the war and rising against the masters are historical parts too. Outside the cameras: Ursula (Eve Kivi) knew to tell that Gabriel (Aleksandr Goloborodko) became a father at the moment they were shooting the scene where Gabriel was fastened up to the tree and one of Shenkenbergs men told him: "Sure, raisk!" (Die, sod!)

This might not seem like an outstanding film to an outsider, but it is a classic in its homeland. This is the story of how men and women fought for their freedom against higher power. The acting is great, the dialogue is classic material. This is most certainly the most often quoted piece in Estonia's history of film and for a reason. Watch it if you want to see a great film that has touched a whole nation without being too serious or too patriotic, but fun and careless among other things as well. This is as good as it gets.