Feature

Corrida

Corrida
(1982)
Genre:
Director:
Screenwriter: Olav Neuland
Cinematographer: Arvo Iho
Production Designer: Heikki Halla
Composer: Sven Grünberg
Editor: Eevi Säde
Producer: Raimund Felt
Main cast: Rein Aren, Rita Raave, Sulev Luik.
Duration: 87 min
Language: Estonian
Subtitle language: English
Available formats: DCP, mov
Colour: Colour

Festivals:

  • PÖFF – Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia), 2023, Retrospective
  • Rouen Nordic Film Festival (France), 1990
  • USSR Film Festival (Washington, USA), 1987
  • University Of California Film And Television Festival (USA) , 1986, Retrospective
  • USSR Film Festival (USSR), 1982, Special programme

Olav Neuland’s Corrida from 1982 has the initial makings of a chamber drama – a lonely island, three people and a herd of animals. Man against wild nature, his urges, fears, and desires. Osvald Rass, a man in his sixties, his wife Ragne who is about half his age and full of life, and her ex-lover Tarmo, have reached a decisive point in their lives where important choices need to be made. The isolation of a lonely island sets the characters face to face with each other, depriving them of social safety measures. It should help them to evolve eternally, but whatever they have brought to the island is of no help any longer. The rudimentary animality that manifests itself in various ways in this situation, strongly challenges the habitual rationale.

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