Made in Estonia
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Vanad ja kobedad saavad jalad alla / Estonia 2003
Goofy light satire centred on two Tallinn DJs and the soap opera they enact on their radio programme.
Synopsis
Made with zest, and more affection than anger, Made in Estonia reps a true-to-its-name light satire that has been pleasing crowds back home hungry for homegrown fare after a long industry drought. Goofy plot is framed by the device of two radio DJs improvising an on-air soap opera: pic cuts from the narrators to the soap-opera story, which forms the bulk of the film. This story centers on an aging Tallinn schlemiel coping with his forced move to the dilapidated but idyllically located digs in the southern countryside. Faces from the radio studio´s world crop up - often in surprising guises - in the soap, while re-emerging Estonia´s troubles get a gentle ribbing.
Leslie Felperin
About the film
100 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Rando Pettai
/ Screenplay Peep Pedmanson
/ Dir. of Photography Mait Mäekivi
/ Music Genialistid
/ Editor Tambet Tasuja
/ Producer Tõnis Haavel, Kaupo Karelson
/ Production Ruut Pictures
/ Cast Henrik Normann, Madis Milling, Piret Laurimaa, Robert Gutmann, Viire Valdma, Marko Matvere, Jan Uuspõld, Enn Reitel, Peeter Oja
/ Contact RUUT Pictures, Lifesize Entertainment & Releasing
Contacts
RUUT Pictures
Faehlmanni 10, 10125, Tallinn
Estonia
Phone: +372 697 7079, +372 628 4545
Fax: +372 697 7077
E-mail: ruut@ruut.com
Lifesize Entertainment & Releasing
194 Elmwood Drive, Suite 2, NJ 07054, Parsippany
United States of America
Phone: +1 973 884 4884
Fax: +1 973 428 9550
E-mail: info@lifesizeentertainment.com
Guests
Karlo Funk
Institution
Rando Pettai
Raimo Joerand
Guntars Laucis
Riin Urbanik
Producer
