# December Heat

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{{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](/source/Asko_Kase)
| producer = [Artur Talvik](/source/Artur_Talvik)
| writer = Mihkel Ulman<br />[Lauri Vahtre](/source/Lauri_Vahtre)
| starring = [Sergo Vares](/source/Sergo_Vares)<br />[Liisi Koikson](/source/Liisi_Koikson)<br />[Tõnu Kark](/source/T%C3%B5nu_Kark)<br />[Mait Malmsten](/source/Mait_Malmsten)<br />[Tambet Tuisk](/source/Tambet_Tuisk)<br />[Carmen Mikiver](/source/Carmen_Mikiver)<br />[Ain Lutsepp](/source/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](/source/Estonian_language)<br />[Russian](/source/Russian_language)<br />[English](/source/English_language)
| budget =
}}
'''''December Heat''''' ({{langx|et|'''Detsembrikuumus'''}}) is a 2008 [historic](/source/historic) [action](/source/Action_film) [drama](/source/drama) [film](/source/film) about the [1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt](/source/1924_Estonian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_attempt) directed by [Asko Kase](/source/Asko_Kase) and starring [Sergo Vares](/source/Sergo_Vares) and [Liisi Koikson](/source/Liisi_Koikson).

==Plot==
"December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether [Estonia](/source/Estonia)n young [independence](/source/independence) continues to exist or we become a province with minor importance of big [communist Russia](/source/Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics). 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](/source/film.com) |accessdate=2010-01-01}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [Sergo Vares](/source/Sergo_Vares) as Tanel Rõuk
* [Liisi Koikson](/source/Liisi_Koikson) as Anna Rõuk
* [Ain Lutsepp](/source/Ain_Lutsepp) as Julius Saarepuu
* [Piret Kalda](/source/Piret_Kalda) as Maret Saarepuu
* Emil-Joosep Virkus as Joosep Saarepuu
* [Tambet Tuisk](/source/Tambet_Tuisk) as Specialist
* [Mait Malmsten](/source/Mait_Malmsten) as lawyer Jaan (prototype: [Jaan Anvelt](/source/Jaan_Anvelt))
* [Taavi Teplenkov](/source/Taavi_Teplenkov) as Veidesoo
* [Tiit Sukk](/source/Tiit_Sukk) as factory owner Indrek
* [Rain Simmul](/source/Rain_Simmul) as Head of Intelligence

'''Historic people'''
* [Tõnu Kark](/source/T%C3%B5nu_Kark) as [Major General](/source/Major_General) [Ernst Põdder](/source/Ernst_P%C3%B5dder)
* [Priit Pedajas](/source/Priit_Pedajas) as [Major General](/source/Major_General) [Johan Unt](/source/Johan_Unt)
* [Carmen Mikiver](/source/Carmen_Mikiver) as Elsa Kingissepp
* Ilkka Koivula as [Otto Kuusinen](/source/Otto_Kuusinen)
* [Yevgeny Knyazev](/source/Yevgeny_Knyazev) as [Grigori Zinovjev](/source/Grigori_Zinovjev)

==Production==
Actual conscripts from Tallinn's [Guard Battalion](/source/Guard_Battalion_(Estonia)) were used to play the part of the mass-up soldiers.

==Notes and references==
{{reflist}}

==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

{{Estonia-film-stub}}

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