The Coastal Swedes have left their village in Estonia to flee from the war. Only Gottfried the lighthouse keeper has stayed there. His young daughter Eetla decides to stay with his father. Here she is now together with his father - facing her own stress and the Soviet soldiers in the village. Fear of unknown makes Eetla escape to her dreams. While standing on the edge of the sky, the earth and the sea, Eetla struggles between reality and dreams, life and death. Kasper, the doctor who hides himself in the lighthouse, tries to support the girl but even he ...
Director: Sulev Keedus
Crew
View all| Producer | Kaie-Ene Rääk |
| Co-producer | Lasse Saarinen |
| Director | Sulev Keedus |
| Screenwriter | Madis Kõiv | Sulev Keedus |
| Cinematographer | Rein Kotov |
| Art Director | Ronald Kolmann |
| Costume Designer | Mare Raidma |
| Composer | Helena Tulve |
| Sound Designer | Mart Otsa | Ivo Felt |
| Editor | Kaie-Ene Rääk |
Cast
View allLeading roles
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Katariina Lauk
Eetla
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Evald Aavik
Gottfried
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Ivo Uukkivi
Kasper
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Jan Uuspõld
Dumb soldier
Supporting roles
First releases
View all- in cinema: 18.09.2003, Cinema Coca-Cola Plaza, Tallinn, Estonia
- on television: 7.09.2004, ETV, Estonia
- on television: 28.11. 2006, YLE1, Finland
Festivals, awards, nominations
View all- Award, Virgin Maali - Estonian Association of Film Journalists' Annual Award (Estonia), 2003, Best Film of the Year (with The Living Force) - for the portrayal of the female character's existential split in the crossing point of two eras in an artistically demanding form
- Prize, Annual Award of Estonian Cultural Endowment (Estonia), 2003, Sulev Keedus, Rein Kotov, Katariina Lauk
- Award, KINOSHOCK - Open Film Festival for states of the CIS and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Anapa, Russia), 2004, Award for Best Cinematography: Rein Kotov
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