Stockholm Film Festival

The year is 1991. A time of great change in the Baltic states. Three countries are recreated: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The same number of stories are told in this film in which love conquers geographical boundaries.

To begin with we meet the soldier Mattias who has recently returned after an extended stay in Moscow. His girlfriend Anne is back home in Estonia, but what is worse, so is another man - her new lover.

Mattias used to be an actor at a theatre before he was called up. He returns there after coming back. A dialogue with Janus (the two-headed one) is prophetic of his future discoveries in the new Estonia.

After that we meet a Lithuanian girl, Regina, who falls in love with a Russian immigrant, Sergei. Regina has an eight-year-old daughter, but the husband seems to have disappeared when they were on a singing tour of Sweden. Sergei's relationship with Regina is not well received by his friends. They think that he ought to find himself a Russian girl. Regina's friends, on the other hand, see Sergei and his friends as enemies. They ask themselves what business the Russians have in Estonia? Are they perhaps their bodyguards, against the Finns and the Swedes?

Finally we get to meet a Lithuanian priest, Vytautas, who becomes attracted to an Estonian stripper. Spiritual vs carnal ideals are compared during a conversation with an elderly priest. As Vytautas puts it: ''I would rather miss one evening prayer than my morning exercise.''

Medverkande

Carmen Mikiver, Sergei Vartschuk, Katri Horma

Producent

Heikki Takkinen & Peeter Urbla

Manus

Peeter Urbla

Foto

Jukka Lampinen

Musik

Igor Garshnek

Talat språk

Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, English

 

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