Lennart Meri esitlus
day of Joseph Stalin's death, he proposed to his first wife Regina Meri, saying "Let us
remember this happy day forever." The politics of the Soviet Union did not allow him to work
as a historian, so Meri found work as a dramatist in the Vanemuine and later on as a producer
of radio plays in the Estonian broadcasting industry.
Lennart Meri as a writer and a filmmaker
Lennart Meri's first book was ,,Beavers and Mediterranean black widowes footseps"
(Kobrade and karakurtide jälgedes), which tells of his trip to Central Asia in 1958. The film
The Winds of the Milky Way (Estonian: Linnutee tuuled), shot in co-operation with Finland
and Hungary, was banned in the Soviet Union, but won a silver medal at the New York Film
Festival. In Finnish schools, his films and texts were used as study materials. His best known
work is perhaps Hõbevalge, which translates into Silver White and was published in 1976. It
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