Completed - ESTONIAN, SPANISH - Drama - 141 minutes
Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Broken souls remain.
Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Sulev KEEDUS Writer(s) : Sulev KEEDUS Cast : Rea LEST, Toomas SUUMAN, Jörgen LIIK, Üllar SAAREMÄE, Ain LUTSEPP, Helena MERZIN, Risto VAIDLA, Piret KRUMM, Sergo VARES, Tambet TUISK Producer(s) : Kaie-ene RÄÄK (F-Seitse OÜ)
The Man Slayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. In fear of being deported to Siberia, she enters into a fictitious marriage with an Estonian man named Heino. The wedded couple live in the verandah of the flat of Heino's uncle, each keeping to their respective corner and sleeping in separate beds. Someone informs NKVD (the Soviet law enforcement agency) of the fictitious marriage and the couple are called in for interrogation. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? As luck would have it, she becomes a witness to the failing relationship between an unemployed actor and his wife. In contrast, Pastor Theophilus of the St. Peter's congregation offers Luna Lee a contract with God. Even so, Teofilos still remains helpless as a helper.
Country(ies) : ESTONIA, LITHUANIA
Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2017 (Best Composer -Martynas Bialobžeskis)Seven Hills Film Festival 2018 (Best director's award - Sulev Keedus)