Autumn Ball

Name: Sügisball
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-09-13
Duration: 2 h 3 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa, Juhan Ulfsak

Original title: Sügisball

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.1K

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Mirtel Pohla and Rain Tolk in Autumn Ball (2007)

Drama

A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.A film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 14 wins & 6 nominations

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Quotes
[last lines]
Jaana: I still came. Do you hate me now very much?
Mati: These houses cannot hold the past for a long time. Maybe because they have been built with future on the mind.
Jaana: I just wanted to be happy. I want to be happy.
Mati: [looking out from the window] In every damn box there is a person who wants to be happy. The whole generations of people, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, car owners -- all of them want to be happy. But their lives pass like blasts against grey limestone walls. What remains from all of this?
Jaana: Maybe you don't believe me but I still love you.
Mati: I don't believe.

Crazy credits
The final credit: 'The movie is inspired by novel by Mati Unt and is dedicated to all men with fragile soul and weak liver who stand alone in night, in pants.'

Connections
Features The Thorn Birds (1983)

Soundtracks
Moya
(uncredited)
Written and Performed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Featured review

10/10

Real achievement by Estonian director!

My absolutely favorite Estonian film today and ever! It's about happiness and love (characters live life without love, very depressing and empty life). "Sügisball" is based on beautiful book by Mati Unt. Director said this film is for people with gentle soul and weak liver. Characters in this film are so real, they give foreign viewer very good idea about Estonia in post-Soviet timing. Beautiful music score, 10 star cinematography, final results strong and sophisticated. Best of all characters is probably architect Maurer (and not because I like him!) But all others are also deep and well-designed. May be director can be called Estonian Altman? I think so.