Special programme “New Baltic films”

Magnus

1 hr. 26 min. | Drama | N/A

Magnus is a sensitive boy growing up in a family that doesn't care about him at all. He suffers from a potentially deadly lung disease and plays the strangest games to cheat death. Ten years later, modern medicine cures Magnus, but his desire to die does not go away. After his second suicide attempt, the father finally becomes alarmed, trying to persuade his son to continue living. The father-son relationship, difficult and sometimes funny, leads us to an unexpected end.

Kadri Kõusaar

Kadri Kõusaar

Kadri Kõusaar was born in 1980 in Estonia. In 2001, she graduated with a degree in Spanish from the University of Tartu. Her final work is a short story "Ego". She now works as a freelance writer and director, as well as for the newspaper Eesti Ekspress. Magnus is her first feature film.
Languages
Estonian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Produced
2007: Estonia, United Kingdom

Film information

Director
Kadri Kõusaar
Screenplay
Kadri Kõusaar
Cinematography
Pawel Sobczyk
Cast
Anu Aaremae, Piret Avila, Hellar Bergmann, Boris Burachinski
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