{{short description|2008 film}} {{Expand Estonian|topic=cult|Detsembrikuumus|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = December Heat | image = Detsembrikuumus (2008).jpg | caption = | director = Asko Kase | producer = Artur Talvik | writer = Mihkel Ulman<br />Lauri Vahtre | starring = Sergo Vares<br />Liisi Koikson<br />Tõnu Kark<br />Mait Malmsten<br />Tambet Tuisk<br />Carmen Mikiver<br />Ain Lutsepp | music = | cinematography = Kjell Lagerroos | editing = Tambet Tasuja | distributor = Ruut Pictures | released = {{Film date|2008|10|16|df=y}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = Estonia | language = Estonian<br />Russian<br />English | budget = }} '''''December Heat''''' ({{langx|et|'''Detsembrikuumus'''}}) is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares and Liisi Koikson.

==Plot== "December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether Estonian young independence continues to exist or we become a province with minor importance of big communist Russia. Independence which seems so self-evident today depends at that moment on couple of random coincidences."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.film.com/movies/detsembrikuumus/25457888 |title=Detsembrikuumus |author= |date= |publisher=film.com |accessdate=2010-01-01}}</ref>

==Cast== * Sergo Vares as Tanel Rõuk * Liisi Koikson as Anna Rõuk * Ain Lutsepp as Julius Saarepuu * Piret Kalda as Maret Saarepuu * Emil-Joosep Virkus as Joosep Saarepuu * Tambet Tuisk as Specialist * Mait Malmsten as lawyer Jaan (prototype: Jaan Anvelt) * Taavi Teplenkov as Veidesoo * Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek * Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence

'''Historic people''' * Tõnu Kark as Major General Ernst Põdder * Priit Pedajas as Major General Johan Unt * Carmen Mikiver as Elsa Kingissepp * Ilkka Koivula as Otto Kuusinen * Yevgeny Knyazev as Grigori Zinovjev

==Production== Actual conscripts from Tallinn's Guard Battalion were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.

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==External links== * {{official website|http://detsembrikuumus.ruut.com}} * {{IMDb title|1198339|Detsembrikuumus}}

{{Estonian submission for Academy Awards}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:December Heat}} Category:2008 films Category:2008 drama films Category:Estonian drama films

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