Feature

Underwater Reefs

Veealused karid
(1959)
Genre:
Director:
Screenwriter: Aadu Hint, Andres Särev
Cinematographer: Semjon Školnikov
Production Designer: Peeter Linzbach
Composer: Boris Kõrver
Producer: Avenir Aksel
Main cast: Aksel Orav, Agnessa Peterson, Lia Laats, Ants Eskola, Arno Suurorg, Ott Raukas, Aleksander Mägi, Valdo Truve, Karl Ots.
Duration: 79 min
Language: Estonian
Subtitle language: English
Available formats: DCP, mov
Colour: Black&white

Festivals:

  • Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Germany), 2020, Retrospective Fishermen’s Films – Fishing in Nordic and Baltic Cinema

Tõnis Hoopkaup, head of the fishing collective farm, receives two significant presents for his wedding day – a new trawler and a cigarette case with the image of an anchor. Tõnis hopes to go to deep-sea fishing with his new ship and get ahead of the competing collective farms. The cigarette case reminds him of his pre-war dreams and disappointments. Tõnis is married to Riina but he is attracted by Lidia who looks like someone he was in love with long time ago and whose father was once known as “the king of the fishing village”. Tõnis believes that he must acquire similar authoritativeness in order to accomplish everything that he has planned in the collective farm and to become respected and successful.

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