Archive of films 511 Best Photographs of Mars / 511 paremat fotot Marsist

Estonia
1968, 15 min

Section: Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary
Year: 2018

The simple act of going to a café acquires new meaning in Sööt’s classic work. The film creates entertaining, contrasting views of Tallinn’s social life, employing a hidden camera, music from Handel and The Beatles, poetry as off-screen commentary, and the latest discoveries about Mars.


Synopsis

The simple act of going to a café takes on a different meaning in Sööt’s classic work of 1960s Estonian documentary cinema. Older ladies and young people become objects of study, as if being observed by creatures from another planet. Employing a hidden camera, director-cinematographer Sööt creates entertaining, contrasting views of Tallinn’s social life, set to music from The Beatles and Handel in combination with off-screen commentary (the poetry of Arthur Alliksaar) and the latest discoveries about Mars.

Zane Balčus

About the director

Andres Sööt

Andres Sööt (b. 1934). Selected filmography: Ruhnu (1965), 511 Best Photographs of Mars (511 paremat fotot Marsist, 1968), Conductors (Dirigendid, 1975), Midsummer Day (Jaanipäev, 1978), Year of the Dragon (Draakoni aasta, 1988), Konrad Mägi (2001), Camino (2011)

Contacts

Estonian Film Institute
Uus 3, 10111, Tallinn
Estonia
Tel: +372 627 6060
Fax: +372 627 6061
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.filmi.ee

About the film

Black & white, DCP

Section: Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary
   
Director: Andres Sööt
Screenplay: Enn Vetemaa
Dir. of Photography: Andres Sööt
Music: Ülo Saar
Editor: Leili Saar
Producer: Vaike Pärnpuu
Production: Tallinnfilm
Sales: Estonian Film Institute

Guests

Eda Koppel

Film Institution Rep.

Andres Sööt

Film Director


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