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The Ideal Landscape (1981)

The Ideal Landscape (1981)

Drama
Release Date: 1981, April 20
Directors: Peeter Simm
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Tallinnfilm
Cast: Tõnu Kark, Paul Laasik, Aire Koop, Viire Valdma, Helle Kuningas, Aarne Üksküla, Arvo Kukumägi, Feliks Kark, Kalju Komissarov, Ines Aru, Paul Poom, Urmas Kibuspuu

Overview:

In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a traveling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career?