Good Hands

Colour, 35 mm
Latvia, Estonia, 2001, 93 min
Section: Baltic Films

Synopsis

A playfully depicted account of two girlfriends from a children’s home who set out on an adventure across Estonia and Latvia. They make their way by stealing. The lovely Latvian Margita, gifted with especially dexterous fingers, one day decides to settle in Estonia. Her arrival creates ripples in the calm surface of the provincial town, and though she can’t seem to agree on anything with anyone, she soon finds admirers and good friends. Love even finds her and turns her into a respectable wife and mother.

About the director

Peeter Simm (b. 1953) graduated in direction from Moscow’s VGIK film school with Wood-Goblin (1976). He shot several short films at a Tallinn film studio and then under his own production: Tattoo (1978), Stereo (1978), Anchor (1991) and Aida (1999). He also wrote and directed As You Sow (1981), Arabela, The Pirate’s Daughter (1983), There Were Trees (1985), Dance Round the Steamboiler (1988), The Man Who Never Existed (1989), Roller-Coaster (1994). Good Hands (Labas rokas, 2001) garnered many festival awards.