Rocks Under Water (1959)
Original title: Veealused karid
Based on the play "Where Are You Headed, Comrade Director?" by Aadu Hint
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 ...
Director: Viktor Nevežin
Main Data
View all| Production Firm(s) | Kunstiliste- ja Kroonikafilmide Tallinna Kinostuudio |
| Color | bw |
| Sound | sound |
| Film Category | Feature film, Full length feature |
| Genre | Melodrama |
| Text / Dialogue | Estonian |
| Duration | 75:20 |
Crew
View all| Director | Viktor Nevežin |
| Screenwriter | Aadu Hint | Andres Särev |
| Cinematographer | Semjon Školnikov |
| Art Director | Peeter Linzbach |
| Costume Designer | Hilda Kruusi |
| Composer | Boris Kõrver |
| Sound Designer | Herman Vahtel |
| Content Editor | Valter Kruustee |
| Writer of Adapted Work | Aadu Hint |
| Managing Director | Avenir Aksel |
Cast
View allLeading roles
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Aksel Orav
Tõnis Hoopkaup
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Agnessa Peterson
Riina Hoopkaup
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Lia Laats
Lidia Lauer
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Ants Eskola
Harald Lauer
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Arno Suurorg
Linkvist
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Ott Raukas
Tiudur
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Aleksander Mägi
Blind Juhan
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Valdo Truve
Priidu
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Karl Ots
Peeter
Supporting roles
First releases
View all- at other places: 30.10. 1959, Tallinna Poliitharidusmaja, Estonia
- in cinema: 02.11. 1959, Tallinnas, Estonia
- in cinema: 21.11. 1959, USSR
Festivals, awards, nominations
View all- Participation, Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Germany), 2020, Retrospective Fishermen’s Films – Fishing in Nordic and Baltic Cinema
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