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Director - Country
Estonia
Sööt Andres
Master Of The Lakes
He documentary follows a village entrepreneur Tonu Tamm working on a huge land art project with beautiful chain of lakes for magic symphony concert.
The Year of the Dragon
The year 1988 was special for Estonia. To everyone's great surprise, the use of the national flag and symbols was permitted; government and Party were given votes of no-confidence; the Popular Front, the Estonian Greens, and the International Movement were founded. The Society for the Protection of Antiquities restored the monuments of the War of Independence. The annihilation of Estonians by Stalin was revealed, and Estonian delegates even showed fight to Moscow. Estonia attracted international attention. Is all this possible in a totalitarian state? Many people asked this question. Draakoni Aasta convincingly tells about the events in Estonia in 1988, about the changes in daily life, about the awakening of the people after 40 years of death-like lethargy.
He documentary follows a village entrepreneur Tonu Tamm working on a huge land art project with beautiful chain of lakes for magic symphony concert.
The Year of the Dragon
The year 1988 was special for Estonia. To everyone's great surprise, the use of the national flag and symbols was permitted; government and Party were given votes of no-confidence; the Popular Front, the Estonian Greens, and the International Movement were founded. The Society for the Protection of Antiquities restored the monuments of the War of Independence. The annihilation of Estonians by Stalin was revealed, and Estonian delegates even showed fight to Moscow. Estonia attracted international attention. Is all this possible in a totalitarian state? Many people asked this question. Draakoni Aasta convincingly tells about the events in Estonia in 1988, about the changes in daily life, about the awakening of the people after 40 years of death-like lethargy.
He graduated from Moscow Institute of Cinematography as a cinematographer in 1963, he worked as an assistant to a cinematographer in Tallinn studio of cinema films in 1954-1957, 1963-1972 he worked for “Tallinnfilm” (cinema film studio of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic), 1972-1980 in “Estonian Telefilm” (television film studio of ESSR), in 1980-1984 he once again was a film director and cinematographer for “Tallinnfilm”. He started his own studio “Monofilm” in 1993 but continued to cooperate with other film studios as well. Andres Sööt was the chairman of Estonian Filmmakers’ Union in1999 to 2000. Besides documentaries, which in itself are outstanding and the best of ones made in Estonia, he has also made a number of newsreels. Andres Sööt was awarded with National Culture Fund’s prize for his achievements and his contribution to Estonian documentary filmmaking in 2004.