Twelve years after making the documentary "Woman of Kihnu" (1973), director Mark Soosaar films another documentary where the focus is on the male residents of Kihnu island. The right to organize their life has been taken away from Kihnu people: important decisions are made in the mainland, local culture is vanishing, social problems are getting worse. Local men are drinking vodka, become alcoholics, or die at sea. The filmmakers ruthlessly record situations that normally would not see any strangers as witnesses. The documentary has followed the actions of sincere people; the stories told by Mark Soosaar are both colourful and ...
Director: Mark Soosaar
Main Data
View all| Production Firm(s) | Tallinnfilm |
| Color | color |
| Sound | sound |
| Film Category | Documentary |
| Text / Dialogue | Estonian, FILM_LANGUAGES_KIHNU, Russian |
| Duration | 49:32 |
Crew
View all| Director | Mark Soosaar |
| Screenwriter | Mark Soosaar |
| Cinematographer | Mark Soosaar |
| Editor | Eha Meier |
| Content Editor | Mart Taevere |
| Managing Director | Janika Freidkes |
Festivals, awards, nominations
View all- Award, DOK LEIPZIG - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany), 1987, Silver Dove
- Participation, USSR Film Festival (USSR), 1987, Jury Award for the Fair and Uncompromising Reflection of Life
- Participation, BERLINALE - Berlin International Film Festival (Germany), 1988, Panorama
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