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AHTO. CHASING A DREAM

AHTO. UNISTUSTE JAHT

By Jaanis VALK

ESTONIAN FILM INSTITUTE - as FIN / PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2018

A dramatic story of a man who overcomes a mutiny on a ship, accidents at sea, headwind, reefs and the beginning of a World War II. Everything to fulfill his dream. This colorful journey around the world will open to us thanks to Ahto’s diary and unique footage that was shot during the trip.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ESTONIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ESTONIAN
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Jaanis VALK
- Writer(s)
- Jaanis VALK, Anto JUSKE
- Producer(s)
- Erik NORKROOS (Missing Pictures - Rühm Pluss Null)
- Synopsis
- On a sunny day in November 1938 a magnificent white schooner set sail from Greenwich with 14 people on board. Among other wealthy passengers from US, Canada and England there is also a young an Estonian
  Captain Ahto Valter, his Scottish-American wife and their 1,5 years old son Teddy “Baby in cage” Valter. With a crew of adventurers chosen from 5,000 applicants in the United States, ketch Ahto starts a memorable and adventurous voyage around a world,
  flying the Estonian flag. Voyage that lasted 18 months and was full of happiness, love and joy, but also betrayal and war. After arriving from a long trip back
  to America Ahto founds out that world he left 1,5 years ago is not the same anymore - he can’t return to homeland Estonia never again...This colorful journey around the world will open to us thanks to Ahto’s diary
  and unique footage that was shot during the trip. A dramatic story of a man who overcomes a mutiny on a ship, accidents at sea, headwind, reefs and the beginning of a World War II. Everything to fulfill his
  dream.