Animated

Cabbage Head

Kapsapea
(1993)
Genre:
Director:
Screenwriter: Riho Unt
Cinematographer: Urmas Jõemees
Production Designer: Riho Unt
Composer: Olav Ehala
Editor: Irja Müür
Producer: Arvo Nuut
Main cast: Aarne Üksküla, Ines Aru, Anne Veesaar, Lembit Ulfsak.
Duration: 29 min
Language: Estonian
Subtitle language: English

Festivals:

  • MONSTRA – Lisbon Animated Film Festival (Portugal), 2018, Programme: Historical Short Films from Estonia
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France), 2014, Special programme: Estonia – The Animated Dreams of Nukufilm 
  • Amiens International Film Festival (France), 2013, Retrospective: Studio Nukufilm
  • Antarctic Short, Documentary and Animation Film Festival (Queen Maud Land, Antarctica), 2011/2012
  • Laputa International Animation Festival (Japan), 2009, Retrospective
  • PÖFF: Animated Dreams – Animation Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia), 2007
  • Tampere Film Festival (Finland), 2005, Retrospective
  • Cannes Film Festival (France), 2005, Programme: Europe in Shorts : Films from Eastern Europe
  • Baltic Film Festival (Berlin, Germany), 2005, Focus Estonia – Animation III: VABADUS & BEYOND
  • Rencontres Audiovisuelles Association (Lille, France), 2004
  • Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market (France), 2002, Retrospective
  • Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia), 2001, Retrospective
  • Osnabrück Independent Film Festival (Germany), 1996
  • DOK LEIPZIG – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany), 1995
  • Regensburg Short Film Week (Germany), 1995
  • Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival (Germany), 1995
  • Montecatini Terme Short Film Festival (Milan, Italy), 1995
  • FANTOCHE – International Animation Film Festival (Baden, Switzerland), 1995
  • Rouen Nordic Film Festival (France), 1995
  • Festival du nouveau cinéma/Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media (Canada), 1995
  • Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market (France), 1995, Competition programme
  • Around the Baltic Film Festival (Gotland, Sweden), 1994
  • Cork International Film Festival (Ireland), 1994
  • MESSAGE TO MAN – International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival Message to Man (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1994
  • Viborg Animations Festival (Denmark), 1993
  • Tampere Film Festival (Finland), 1994
  • Estonian State Cultural Award (Estonia), 1994
  • Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival (Portugal), 1994, Honorable Mention
  • Estonian Cultural Foundation’s Annual Award (Estonia), 1993

It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia. Against a backround of chasing and hunting two young people find their love.
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