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JOHANNES PÄÄSUKESE TÕELINE ELU

By Hardi VOLMER

KOPLI KINOKOMPANII OÜ - as PROD

Historical - Completed 2019

In 1912, the first Estonian filmmaker, Johannes Pääsuke, was commissioned to capture life and people in a far corner of Estonian countryside: Setomaa. He returned with more than 1300 photos, but only 7 minutes of film footage. What happened to the rest of it? Our comedy tries to propose a version.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Historical, Road movie, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- ESTONIA
- Languages
- ESTONIAN, RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Hardi VOLMER
- Writer(s)
- Olavi RUITLANE
- Cast
- Ott SEPP, Märt AVANDI, Tõnu KARK, Ester KUNTU
- Producer(s)
- Anneli AHVEN (KOPLI KINOKOMPANII OÜ)
- Synopsis
- In 1912, the first Estonian filmmaker, Johannes Pääsuke, was commissioned to capture life and people in a far corner of Estonian countryside: Setomaa. He returned with more than 1300 photos, but only 7 minutes of film footage. What happened to the rest of it? Our comedy tries to propose a version.
  
  Johannes Pääsuke and his assistant Harri Volter, a Baltic German medical student, played by prominent Estonian comedians Ott Sepp and Märt Avandi, travel by train and on horse carriage from Tartu to Petseri and Värska and end up in most surreal adventures leading them to one conclusion: a man has to do what a man has to do.
  
  A year later, in 1913, Johannes Pääsuke filmed the very first Estonian feature film: Bear Hunt in the Pärnu County.