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Marko RaatActeurs·trices:
Tommi Korpela, Tiina Tauraite, Simeoni Sundja, Liina Tennosaar, Jan Uuspõld, Erki Laur, Meelis Rämmeld, Maarja Jakobson, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Peeter Tammearu, Rainer Elhi, Jarmo Reha (plus)Résumés(1)
Two girls are gazing at the shimmering Estonian lake that bears mysteries and perhaps even possesses a supernatural power to take or to save human lives. Soon those waters will bring a devastating disaster to their village. A calamity which will be followed by a chain of tragedies and adventures, all revolving around desire and love. Using the language of a poetic fairy tale, 8 Views of Lake Biwa offers a free flowing, meditative journey through borders and cultural differences – an almost therapeutic experience of reverie and relief. Inspired by the traditions of Japanese episodic storytelling and its iconic imagery, Marko Raat combines them with the sensibility of Baltic cultures. Though reserved, his mystical film is centred on passions and eroticism of an extremely high voltage. In Raat's magical universe, you can cross a lake on the Russian-Estonian border and find yourself in faraway Japan. You can time travel and cross the lines between reality and fantasy without even noticing it. When everything is taken as part of the real, everything becomes one: life and death, men and nature, East and West. Distances disappear, while time meanders, bringing together the past, the present and the unknown. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Tommi Korpela
Finlande
Meilleurs films :
Purge (2012)
Tummien perhosten koti (2008)
Frontière, 1918 (2007)
Tiina Tauraite
Meilleurs films :
Luuraja ja luuletaja (2016)
Simeoni Sundja
Finlande
Meilleurs films :
Tõde ja õigus (2019)
Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar (2022)
Liina Tennosaar
Meilleurs films :
Autumn Ball (2007)
Jan Uuspõld
Estonie
Meilleurs films :
Frank ja Wendy (2004)
Luuraja ja luuletaja (2016)
Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar (2022)
Erki Laur
Meilleurs films :
Autumn Ball (2007)
Meelis Rämmeld
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
November (2017)
Kertu (2013)
Eia jõulud Tondikakul (2018)
Maarja Jakobson
Meilleurs films :
Kirsitubakas (2014)
Klassikokkutulek (2016)
Autumn Ball (2007)
Hendrik Toompere Jr.
Union soviétique
Meilleurs films :
1944 (2015)
Seenelkäik (2012)
Melchior l'apothicaire - L'Énigme de Saint-Olav (2022)
Peeter Tammearu
Meilleurs films :
1944 (2015)
Sigade revolutsioon (2004)
Seenelkäik (2012)
Jüri Vlassov
Union soviétique