Urmas Eero Liiv's feature film "Must alpinist" is a youth horror film based on real-life events from the Soviet era. The story follows a Soviet Estonian student hiking group as they navigate scary events in wintry Siberia. When the group leader disappears, his rival Eero takes charge and leads them to a Buryate village for help. However, a bizarre and unsettling chain of events unfolds, seemingly orchestrated by the missing leader. The hikers, now in a foreign land among strangers, are faced with a daunting task they initially resist and later struggle to overcome.
Ghost Mountaineer
A haunting tale of a Soviet Estonian student's perilous hike, inspired by real-life events from the Soviet era, combines elements of horror and suspense in Urmas Eero Liiv's feature film "Must alpinist" (Ghost Mountaineer).