According to the film’s director Helen Takkin, Tammsaare thoroughly, but covertly, analyzed the dialogue between a man and a woman in the novel “Life and Love”. “There is a tension between the lines and behind the monologues, which arises from the main characters’ desire for love, but also from unequal power relations and generational patterns of behavior.”
The feature film “Life and Love” tells the love story of Irma and Rudolf, but the screenplay interprets the novel in a way that gives the story a modern point of view. “It’s not a typical love movie, but a movie about what love can do to people,” Takkin said.
Maarja Vaino, director of the Tammsaare Museum Literary Center in Tallinn, added that in Tammsaare’s work, love is rather something that the characters often cannot handle. “In the new year it will be 90 years since the publication of the novel “Life and Love”. Although the book was published almost a century ago, when society was different, many problems are still similar today, and man and its nature have remained largely the same.”
According to Vaino, the story at the heart of “Life and Love” can draw a surprising number of parallels to today’s world. “In the anniversary year of the book’s publication, it is very positive that the novel inspired director Helen Takkin and screenwriter Martin Algus to create a new approach to the relationship between Irma and Rudolf,” she added. “There were many similar relationships in Tammsaare’s life too, which did not end with a happy walk into the sunset. As a writer, he also made the most of the complicated side of love. When a truly great love is born between two people , it may even end in collapse or destruction,” said Maarja Vaino.
A feature film based on the novel of the same name by AH Tammsaare takes the viewer into the heart of an unexpected love story. Two iconic characters of Estonian literature, Irma and Rudolf, find themselves facing sudden turns in life and love. The action of the film takes place in a revolutionary period, when the young Republic of Estonia, overwhelmed by growing prosperity, faces the trembling challenges of a changing world. Coming to the screen as a feature film for the first time, “Life and Love” gives timeless themes a new perspective, creating striking parallels with the modern world.
Life and Love is the first feature film by Helen Takkin, an award-winning director of short films and commercials. The film’s producers are Kristian Taska and Adeele Tähemaa of Taska Film (“O2”, “Talve”, “Nimed Marmortahvlil”, “1944”, “Apteeker Melchior”) and Tanel Tatter and Veiko Esken of Apollo Film Productions (“Talve ” , “Soo”, “The Apothecary Melchior”). The director of photography of the film is Alvar Kõõ, the artist Kamilla Kase, the costume designer Anu Lensment, the composer Mick Pedaja, the screenwriter Martin Algus.
With Karolin Jürise (Irma), Mait Malmsten (Rudolf), Loviise Kapper (Lonni) and Ursel Tilk (Eedi). Markus Luik, Alo Kõrve, Markus Habakukk, Tõnis Niinemets, Steffi Pähn, Kristiina-Hortensia Port, Getter Meresmaa, Helgur Rosental, Mihkel Kabel and Laura Kukk in other roles.
The production of “Life and Love” was supported by Postimees, ERR, Elisa, Tartu Film Fund, High Voltage, Set Set Studio, Location Unit, DHL, Cramo, A. le Coq, Tradehouse, NAOS, Pro Beauté and Linnamäe . The film is distributed by Hea Film.
The official premiere of the film will take place in Tallinn on February 12, 2024. The film will be released in cinemas across Estonia by February 16.
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