This essay looks at a series of touristic shorts, the so-called scenics released during the 1960s and 1970s by the two Soviet Estonian film studios, Tallinnfilm and Eesti Telefilm (Estonian Television Film). The films concentrate on the picturesque environment of Tallinn’s Old Town – the oldest part of the city presenting a well-preserved medieval milieu. The representations of the Old Town, as well as its architectural features, has always been an important arena for negotiations between conflicting ideologies and (national) identities, evoking complex issues of power, resistance and adaptation.
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