Taivo Tenso

Películas

40 Years Later
Director of Photography
The director's parents Tiina and Ülo have saved more stuff in their home throughout the years than they have space to live. Useless piles of clothes, old newspapers and dishes block the way to the dinner table or bed. This is a story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.
The Little Comrade
Gaffer
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back.
November
Gaffer
En una comunidad de la Estonia pagana, la población tiene que luchar contra el frío, pero también convivir con hombres-lobo, con una plaga y con los espíritus. Nada es tabú, y la gente está dispuesta a vender su alma a unas extrañas criaturas de metal y madera, llamadas kratts. En este contexto encontramos a Liina, que ha decidido recuperar a su amado Hans a toda costa, aunque esto implique recurrir a la magia negra.
La clase de esgrima
Gaffer
Huyendo de la policía secreta rusa, Endel, un joven campeón de esgrima, se ve obligado a regresar a su tierra natal, donde se convierte en profesor de educación física en una escuela local. Pero el pasado le pone frente a una difícil elección.
1944
Gaffer
La Batalla de Tannenberg, de 1944 fue uno de los episodios más sangrientos del Frente Oriental durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En la frontera entre Europa y Rusia, pelean soldados estonios. Algunos en el Ejército Rojo ruso y otros en las Waffen SS alemanas; en este caso, dos hermanos que luchan en bandos contrarios se encuentran enfrentados.
In the Crosswind
Gaffer
14 de junio de 1941. Sin previo aviso, decenas de miles de personas en Estonia, Letonia y Lituania son expulsadas de sus hogares. El objetivo de esta operación -llevada a cabo por orden del líder soviético, Joseph Stalin- es purgar los países bálticos de sus habitantes nativos. Erna, estudiante de filosofia, felizmente casada y madre de una hija pequeña, es deportada a Siberia.
Mushrooming
Gaffer
A demeaning game-show appearance, an ill-advised mushroom-picking outing that goes horribly off the rails, inquiries from a cynical reporter — things just keep getting worse for the middle-aged politician at the centre of Estonian director Toomas Hussar's satire about a shallow, fame-obsessed post-Cold War culture.
Love and Other Troubles
Gaffer
Ville, con 25 años, es una antigua estrella infantil un tanto pesimista, que ha logrado evitar exitosamente por años a su mujeriego padre roquero. Todo cambia cuando éste se va a vivir con Ville y ambos se enamoran de la misma profesora estadounidense de baile country.
The Idiot
Gaffer
A story of a naive man, whose direct behavior stirs in people moral unrest, rage and embarrassment over their own pettiness, making them yearn for goodness. Based on the book by F. Dostojevski.
The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter
Gaffer
A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sipra. This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...
The Temptation of St. Tony
Gaffer
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life.
Taarka
Groom
The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.
Georg
Gaffer
Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the highest ranks of the Soviet Union and millions of ordinary people. Georg Ots took the stage when a huge country was recovering from the horrors of war, and his voice returned them faith in a bright future. Few people know what his life was really like.
Made in Estonia
Gaffer
Fantasy and reality dance a wicked tango in this quirky comedy about the misadventures of Mill and Norm, two talented radio actors in Estonia.
Agent Wild Duck
Gaffer
Hans Wild Duck Gens, an old school industrial spy becomes suicidally jealous when the firm brings in a German performance artist who becomes not only the top agent, but also replaces him in his girlfriend Monika's affections.