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8 VIEWS OF LAKE BIWA

By Marko RAAT

FILM REPUBLIC - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, Art - Culture
- Countries
- ESTONIA, FINLAND
- Languages
- ESTONIAN
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Marko RAAT
- Writer(s)
- Marko RAAT
- Cast
- Elina MASING , Tiina TAURAITE, Jan UUSPÕLD , Hendrik TOOMPERE , Kärt KOKKOTA , Meelis RÄMMELD , Peeter TAMMEARU, Simeoni SUNDJA , Liina TENNOSAAR, Jüri VLASSOV , Toomas SAAREPERA , Maarja JAKOBSON , Jarmo REHA , Tommi KORPELA
- Producer(s)
- Ivo FELT (Allfilm ), Dora NEDECZKY (Allfilm )
- Synopsis
- 8 Views of Lake Biwa translates age-old Japanese love stories into the language of yearnings and desires of fishermen of Lake Peipus and their children. The mental state of the main characters is observed through eight poetic oriental motifs: sailing boats returning home, red glow of dusk, first snow, night rain, full moon in autumn, temple bell in evening, sudden draft, wild geese flying away. These motifs of beautiful sadness frame the eight intertwining unholy love stories, destroying the lovers and people around them. Spiritualizing of everything live and lifeless according to Japanese animism, comical shunga eroticism and humble village fatalism melt together into spiritual and magical world of a tiny community where they still believe that they are connected to the universe.