i first saw this at a foreign film festival . it a beautifully paced nail biter about a plot to relieve the estonian treasury of a billion or so in gold . it all shot in a gritty and grainy style that hollywood rarely use but it capture the atmosphere of the newly emancipate baltic state beautifully ( note represent tallin be actually look a lot less grim in 2003 when i be there ) . there a lot of humor and some romance and too . i do not want to spoil a number of startle yet logical surprise and so i will just say this heist film start from a great script and and the directing and performance be top notch . darkness in tallin be simply the fast and most nerve rack example of it genre i would put it up against rafifi and topkapi and and it mile ahead of the new ocean 11 and though ( deliberately ) not a glossy . rent or buy it now .