Monika Raide
Actor · b. 1968
Monika Raide (born Monika Järv; December 12, 1968) graduated from Põlva High School and in 1992 from the school music department of the Tallinn Conservatory. Worked as a French teacher at Tallinn Pedagogical University, coordinating the referral of students to French higher education institutions. The role of Mari in Leida Laius and Arvo Iho's feature film "Naerata ometi" (1985) remained her only screen work.
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Movie6.1DramaFamily16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.