Helme Rattas

In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a traveling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career?

Taaniel Tina est un capitaine strict et dur d'un bateau pirate. Sa fille Arabella est habituée au mode de vie des pirates, notamment à la chasse au trésor et aux batailles. Aadu est un voyageur plein de sagesse et de cordialité qui gagne le cœur d'Arabella. Elle apprendra progressivement que les pirates, y compris son père, sont emprisonnés par la cupidité et le mal. Le bateau pirate navigue vers un autre vol dangereux. Comment diriger son destin pour qu'un enfant puisse vivre dans un monde meilleur?

Human life in the absurd of the everyday

A teenage boy named Vahur, who is from a seemingly upstanding family, becomes an accomplice to the vicious assault on an elderly man. Through a look into the boy's childhood and family, this film raises the question of how to become and remain a decent human being in the schizophrenic Soviet society where everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others.

Jaan Tooming's adaptation of the novel by A.H. Tammsaare.