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La comédie Goodbye Soviet Union de Lauri Randla bientôt dans les salles

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- Cette coproduction entre l'Estonie et la Finlande raconte les aventures de la famille Tarkkinen, des Finnois d'Ingrie, pendant les derniers jours de l'Union soviétique

La comédie Goodbye Soviet Union de Lauri Randla bientôt dans les salles
Goodbye Soviet Union de Lauri Randla (© Exitfilm)

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Lauri Randla's comedy Goodbye Soviet Union [+lire aussi :
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will be soon ready for theatrical release. This is the director's debut feature, which follows his short Mausoleum (2016), awarded at several international film festivals in Canada, Romania, Lithuania, and the UK. Before prepping Goodbye Soviet Union, Randla also wrote and directed one of the episodes of Õuduskasset, an Estonian omnibus horror film released in 2017.

Randla, who also wrote the script for his new endeavour, will tell the story of Johannes, born into the eccentric Tarkkinen family during the last days of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland and he is left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls head over heels in love with his classmate Vera, takes risks, gets into fights and gets punished. Meanwhile, in the background, the “Evil Empire” collapses. As Lenin falls and the Barbie dolls take over, Gena the Crocodile and the Moskvitches are forced to step aside, leaving the road to the West wide open.

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The confirmed members of the main cast are Niklas Kouzmitchev, Nika Savolainen, Ülle Kaljuste, Tõnu Oja, Pääru Oja and Jekaterina Novosjolova. Meanwhile, the technical crew attached to the project includes DoP Elen Lotman (When You Least Expect It, Demons) and production designer Jaana Jüris (Kutsar koputab kolm korda, Knife). The production, filmed entirely in Estonia, was shot in three different languages – namely, Estonian, Russian and Ingrian Finnish.

Goodbye Soviet Union is being produced by Peeter Urbla for Estonia's Exitfilm, and Mark Lwoff and Misha Jaari for Finland's Bufo. The project was also backed by the Estonian Film Institute, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Finnish Film Foundation, Finland's pubcaster YLE and Eurimages. The movie is set to hit Estonian cinemas on 26 March and Finnish theatres on 27 March.

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