East of the West - Competition 2012 / Seenelkäik / Estonia 2012
Politician Aadu and his wife Viivi decide to go pick mushrooms; in the forest they meet guitarist Zak and all sorts of other mushroom hunters. A tragicomedy with a wisp of thriller anchored to a model story: Through the behavior of the individual protagonists, the plot gradually reveals their inability to "survive” in an unknown environment that lays their characters bare.
Politician Aadu and his wife set out to pick mushrooms on a day when he gets a call from a journalist confronting him with regard to suspected corruption. By coincidence the married couple find themselves in a car with a pompous rock idol named Zäk. After discovering that the spot his wife has chosen to pick mushrooms is full of vacationers, Aadu decides to find a quieter place. The woods which he ultimately finds, however, are perhaps too deep and inhospitable, and finding a way out may not be that easy.... This satirical tragicomedy with touches of refreshing black humor is Estonian director and screenwriter Toomas Hussar’s feature debut. He takes aim at the often unscrupulous behavior of contemporary politicians and media stars willing to pile up corpses on the way to power and popularity.
93 min / Color, 35 mm
World premiere
Director Toomas Hussar
/ Screenplay Toomas Hussar
/ Dir. of Photography Rein Kotov
/ Music Arian Levin
/ Editor Tambet Tasuja
/ Producer Piret Tibbo-Hudgins
/ Production Allfilm
/ Cast Raivo E. Tamm, Elina Reinold, Juhan Ulfsak, Üllar Saaremäe
/ Contact Allfilm
Toomas Hussar (b. 1962) studied mathematics at Tartu University, theology at the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, and acting at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. He is a writer of stories and scripts, and a director of numerous theater plays and TV series (e.g. the reality show "The Jürgensons,” 2001), for which he won awards. Mushrooming is his feature film debut.
Allfilm
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Phone: +372 672 9070, +3 725 176 393
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E-mail: [email protected]
Tristan Priimägi
Journalist
Piret Tibbo-Hudgins
Producer
Toomas Hussar
Film Director
Rein Kotov
Director of Photography
Raivo E. Tamm
Actor
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