Tammsaare’s love story “Life and Love” will be released on Valentine’s Day next year and will star Karolin Jürise and Mait Malmsten.
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”. “Between the lines and behind the monologues there is a tension that arises not only from the main characters’ desire for love, but also from unequal power relations and generational patterns of behavior,” Takkin said.
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 his nature are changed largely remained the same,” Vaino said.
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.
“Tammsaare also had several similar relationships in his life, which did not end with him walking off into the happy sunset. As a writer, he also made the most of the complicated side of love. When true great love comes between two people, and it can even end in collapse or destruction,” said Maarja Vaino.
Karolin Jürise plays the role of Irma in the film and Mait Malmsten plays the role of Rudolf.
2023-12-28 11:41:00
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