Archive documentary · 05.03.1940
A. H. Tammsaare's funeral at the Forest Cemetery, 1940
A. H. Tammsaare matused Metsakalmistul, 1940
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, author of Truth and Justice, died on 1 March 1940. This newsreel opens with archive footage of the writer and then follows his funeral on 5 March: the coffin in the Estonia concert hall under a guard of honour, the procession and the burial at Tallinn's Forest Cemetery, Metsakalmistu, opened in 1933. Henrik Visnapuu, Marie Under, Jüri Uluots and Johan Laidoner appear, and the reel recalls the unveiling of Tammsaare's monument at Albu in 1936.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
„Tõe ja õiguse“ autor Anton Hansen Tammsaare suri 1. märtsil 1940. Kroonika algab arhiivikaadritega kirjanikust ja jälgib siis tema matuseid 5. märtsil: kirst Estonia kontserdisaalis auvalve all, leinarongkäik ja matmine Tallinna Metsakalmistule, mis avati 1933. aastal. Ekraanil on Henrik Visnapuu, Marie Under, Jüri Uluots ja Johan Laidoner ning lint meenutab ka Tammsaare ausamba avamist Albus 1936. aastal.