Future Classics // Autumn Ball
Drama : 123 min : EstoniaThe startling first film of critically-acclaimed director Veiko Ounpuu, Autumn Ball, centres on six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower blocks whose lives touch, and who are all united by a feeling of loneliness. Winner of the Horizon Award, Venice Film Festival 2007
|
Title
|
Autumn Ball
|
|
Original Title
|
Sugisball
|
|
Prod. Year
|
2007
|
|
Country of Origin
|
Estonia
|
|
Language Spoken
|
Estonian
|
|
Duration
|
123 min
|
|
Shot on
|
35 mm
|
|
Screen Ratio
|
1:1,85
|
|
Format
|
35 mm, Dolby SRD
|
|
Domestic Release
|
2007-09-27
|
|
Admission/rating
|
48.000 Adm.
|
|
Target Group
|
25-55
|
|
Director
|
Veiko Ounpuu
|
|
Cast
|
Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Tiina Tauraite |
The film that talks about six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower blocks whose lives touch together, and who are all united by a feeling of loneliness. The young writer, Mati, lurks outside the window of his ex-wife and unsuccessfully approaches other women. August Kask is a bachelor-barber living a drab life who takes to a little girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as pedophilia. The single mom, Laura, watches a sappy soap opera on TV and pushes away men's advances because she cannot trust them. Maurer, the architect, thinks about the well-being of humanity, but has forgotten his own wife, who, in turn, looks for solace in the coatroom attendant Theo. Women like Theo, but due to his low social status, they don't take him seriously.