28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE - CORTOMETRAGGI

TUUKRID VIHMAS

DIVERS IN THE RAIN
by Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn
Country: Estonia
Year: 2010
Duration: 24'


divers in the rain

A couple and their strange daily life. He is a deep-sea diver and every morning he wakes up and climbs onto a truck that takes him to the sea, where a ship is sinking. She works by night; she is a dentist and every evening she gets onto the truck that waits for her in front of their house. Their kisses are always a leave-taking but he is a deep-sea diver and has to go underwater, while she is tired and needs to sleep. There are no silent places in her dreams and no one knows which cigarette will be the last one he smokes.

 

“We wanted to make a film about daily routines, but more than just that… and in the end we found ourselves with three parallel stories. The first is about the life of a deep-sea diver and his team, in which everything seems to move slowly, senselessly, aimlessly. The second story is about a big ship that is sinking; it provides the tension in the film and makes the first story more tragic. The third is about the woman’s dreams and, as opposed to the first two stories, it is far from reality. The two fundamental components of the entire film are the ceaseless rain and the very realistic sounds.”

Biography

film director

Priit Pärn

Priit Pärn (Tallinn, Estonia, 1946) has a degree in biology and has dedicated himself to caricatures and illustrations since the 1960s. Between 1976 and 1994 he was art director and animator at Tallinfilm Studio in their animation department. Since 1994 he has been working at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio. He has made eleven animated films which have won prizes at numerous international festivals. In 2002 he received the Asifa Life Achievement Award.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Priit Pärn:

And Plays Tricks (1978), The Triangle (1982), Time Out (anim., 1984),Breakfast on the Grass (cm, anim., 1987), Hotel E (anim., 1992), Free Action(1996), Night of the Carrots

(anim., 1998), Karl and Marilyn (anim., 2003).

 

Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn:

I Feel the Life Long Bullet in the Back of My Head... (cm, anim., 2006), Elu ilma Gabriella Ferrita (Life without Gabriella Ferri, mm, anim., 2008), Tuukrid vihmas (Divers in the Rain, cm, anim., 2010).

Olga Pärn

Olga Pärn (Minsk, Republic of Belarus, 1976) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Belarus in 2000. Between 1997 and 2003 she participated in various artistic events in Belarus, Poland, Germany and Austria. She studied at the École du film d’animation La Poudriere in Valence from 2003 to 2005 and later worked in Paris as a storyboarder.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Olga Pärn:

William, Miguel and Small Bob (cm, anim., 2004), Chat comme chat (cm, anim., 2004), Dreamer (cm, anim., 2005).

Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn:

I Feel the Life Long Bullet in the Back of My Head... (cm, anim., 2006), Elu ilma Gabriella Ferrita (Life without Gabriella Ferri, mm, anim., 2008), Tuukrid vihmas (Divers in the Rain, cm, anim., 2010).

Cast

& Credits

regia, montaggio/directors, film editing

Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Priit Pärn

fotografia/cinematography

Marje-Ly Liiv

animatori/animators

Tarmo Vaarmets, Marje Ale, Ülle Metsur, Tiina Ubar-Sauter

suono/sound

Horret Kuus

produttore/producer

Kalev Tamm

produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales

Eesti Joonisfilm

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