Somnambulance

  • 129'
  • Estonia
  • 2003

In quite a few ways, Somnambulance plays like a pendant to Georgica. If the latter is set in the period soon after the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, then the former takes place during the last autumn of independence, in the midst of the Red Army's advance.

In a place of raging war, Eewald Avik plays Gottfried, a lonely lighthouse keeper who is visited by his daughter Eetla. Once again, Sulev Keedus manages to craft a work of pure beauty and spiritual depth. Somnambulance has a cinematographic language that is anchored in the tactile quality of the world it's set in, as well as the extremely muted colour palette that seems to consist only of infinite shades of grey, light blues, dark browns and deep shades of black.

– Olaf Möller

  • 129'
  • Estonia
  • 2003
Director
Sulev Keedus
Country of production
Estonia
Year
2003
Festival Edition
IFFR 2024
Length
129'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Somnambuul
Language
Estonian
Producer
Kaie-Ene Rääk
Production Company
F-Seitse OÜ
Sales
F-Seitse OÜ
Screenplay
Sulev Keedus, Madis Kõiv
Cinematography
Rein Kotov
Editor
Kaie-Ene Rääk
Production Design
Ronald Kolmann
Sound Design
Mart Otsa, Ivo Felt
Music
Helena Tulve
Cast
Evald Aavik, Katariina Lauk-Tamm, Ivo Uukkivi, Jan Uuspõld
Director
Sulev Keedus
Country of production
Estonia
Year
2003
Festival Edition
IFFR 2024
Length
129'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Somnambuul
Language
Estonian
Producer
Kaie-Ene Rääk
Production Company
F-Seitse OÜ
Sales
F-Seitse OÜ
Screenplay
Sulev Keedus, Madis Kõiv
Cinematography
Rein Kotov
Editor
Kaie-Ene Rääk
Production Design
Ronald Kolmann
Sound Design
Mart Otsa, Ivo Felt
Music
Helena Tulve
Cast
Evald Aavik, Katariina Lauk-Tamm, Ivo Uukkivi, Jan Uuspõld