BigList
Login / Sign up
Taarka (2008)

Taarka (2008)

Drama
Release Date: 2008, August 14
Directors: Ain Mäeots
Countries: Estonia
Production: Exitfilm
Cast: Indrek Taalmaa, Riho Kütsar, Matti Onnismaa, Liina Tennosaar, Peeter Volkonski, Aarne Soro, Peeter Oja, Inga Salurand, Markus Luik, Tõnu Oja, Ain Mäeots, Mikko Nousiainen

Overview:

The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.