Autumn Ball
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Autumn Ball is a 2007 Estonian
drama
film directed by Veiko Õunpuu
, adapted from Mati Unt
's 1979
novel of the same name. The film depicts six desolate people of different yet similar fates in characteristically Soviet pre-fabricated housing units (khruschevka).
Cinema of Estonia
Cinema in Estonia started in 1896 when the first "moving pictures" were screened in Tallinn. The first movie theater was opened in 1908. First local documentary was made in 1908 with the production of a newsreel about Swedish King Gustav V’s visit to Tallinn...
drama
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
film directed by Veiko Õunpuu
Veiko Õunpuu
Veiko Õunpuu is an Estonian film director and screenwriter who is best known for his artistic movies Autumn Ball and The Temptation of St. Tony...
, adapted from Mati Unt
Mati Unt
Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director....
's 1979
1979 in literature
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novel of the same name. The film depicts six desolate people of different yet similar fates in characteristically Soviet pre-fabricated housing units (khruschevka).
Cast
- Rain Tolk as Mati
- Taavi Eelmaa as Theo
- Tiina Tauraite as Ulvi
- Maarja Jakobson as Laura
- Mirtel Pohla as Jaana
- Sulevi Peltola as Augusti Kaski
- Iris Persson as Laura's daughter
- Juhan Ulfsak as Maurer
- Ivo Uukkivi as Laura's ex-husband
- Katariina Lauk as female conference visitor
- Paul Laasik as television repairman