Teesklejad
Pretenders
Trailer
The title of Vallo Toomlas's debut film is a challenge to the viewer: who here is genuine and how is one to see through the deception? Resentment, envy and long-suppressed contempt soon set a series of acts of hypocrisy and intrigue in motion with ultimately fatal consequences. The success of TEESKLEJAD goes back to its precise, almost merciless dissection of its main characters and the ties that bind them, until they snap like over-tightened strings.
With everyday disagreements added a psychoanalytical edge by the film's impressive visual concept, the stylish glasshouse around which the plot revolves comes by day to represent a goldfish bowl in which the protagonists' suppressed feelings unfold, whilst at night the many windows are transformed into sombre mirrors, in the reflections of which the dividing lines between the two couples become blurred. DJ
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis
Erik Põllumaa
Vladimir Golovnitski
Eva-Maria Gramakovski
Kārlis Auzāns
Mirtel Pohla, Priit Võigemast, Mari Abel, Meelis Rämmeld
Studio Uljana Kim, Locomotive Production
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Vallo Toomla - born 1983 in Rakvere, Estonia. He studied film directing at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn. His student films have all been aired by Estonian Public Broadcasting. His film MORBIUS (2009) won the Best Estonian Short Film Award at the Sleepwalkers International Student Festival (PÖFF). TEESKLEJAD is his feature debut.
MORBIUS (2009, short)
SAATANA VODEVILL (2010, short)
Protsess (2010, short)
LIMONAADILUGU (2013, short, anim)
