Ervin Õunapuu
Director · b. 1956 · Käru, Rapla County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Ervin Õunapuu (born July 30, 1956 in Käru, Rapla County) is an Estonian writer, playwright, stage designer and filmmaker. 1987–1990, he was the stage designer at Rakvere Theatre. Since 1990, he is a freelancer. In 2000, he was awarded with Friedebert Tuglas short story award.
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Movie4.0DramaRaul's father Viktor, a Soviet-era Estonian militia officer, shaped his son with communist ideology. Raul was raised in a violent and pathological attitude of the despotic father, blindly driven by the ideology. Driven by his jealousy of his wife and her bohemian lifestyle, Viktor, being a high ranking KGB officer, stated her as a predator against the Soviet nation, and one early morning she is taken by KGB agents to an unknown destination.
Movie5.0DramaThis is a story of two old folks, who have spent most of their lives behind prison walls. Now, as seventy year old men, they have been granted amnesty. Both men have a passionate desire to change their lives according to certain plans.
Movie5.4ThrillerComedyYoung and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security reasons, five doubles will be found and trained for Lenin. All of them are finally sent to Russia to instigate the revolution. How will the real Lenin put up with all this?
Movie5.8AdventureThrillerPolitician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the reputation campaign. They are joined by a voter, penniless rock star Zäk. In order to avoid common mushroom forests, they drive to some countryside at random. Soon the trio discovers that they are lost, at the same time a media scandal breaks out - the investigative press suspects that Kägu has misused state money. The fight for honor, life and death begins, both in the forest and in the city.