Kaspar Jancis
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Biography: Kaspar Jancis (born May 8, 1975) is an Estonian director of animated films, musician, composer. Kaspar Jancis was born in Tallinn as the son of Latvian pianist Valdis Jancis and Estonian ballet master, dancer and screenwriter Mai Murdmaa. Jancis' brother Rainer Jancis is a professional musician. He studied at Tallinn University and at Turku Arts and Media School, learning filmmaking. He has published one children's book: Kapten Morten lollide laeval ('Morten on a Ship of Fools'; 2010).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Birthday: May 08, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Teofrastus
Overview: A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life at a train station. One day, he is offered a home by a family living in a nearby countryside house. However, the happy life is short-lived when the cat is taken to the big city and gets lost on the streets. Will Teofrastus find his way back to happiness?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2018-12-18
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Priit Pärn in Tallinn
Overview: Documentary about the work of the Estonian cartoonist and animation director Priit Pärn
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Weitzenberg Street
Overview: A man dreams of a woman. The woman is, in turn, interested in someone else. The man abandons his attempts to attract the woman's attention because he has discovered a new object of desire. The woman, in turn, becomes interested in the man. The man, though, is interested only in his new favorite, due to whom the man soon finds himself in danger. The man barely escapes ...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Men at Arms
Overview: Year 1208. The first Eastward enlargement of Europe is under way. Brutal forces of the Teutonic Order are steadily marching on. In their path live a simple and peaceful people, whose main pastimes include cultivating the earth, singing and, if possible, doing both at the same time. They are the Estonians. Ignorant in the ways of war, they find an unlikely leader in a young boy with Catholic upbringing. In their fight for freedom, the Estonians encounter numerous obstacles, including the Germans, French, Russians and, worst of all, the Latvians. Will they succeed in defeating their enemies or will they experience a cultural awakening?
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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The Wild Swans
Overview: Once upon a time, a King had eleven sons and one daughter. When his wife, the Queen, died, the King remarried. The new wife and the children's stepmother looks beautiful on the outside, but actually she's an evil witch. She sends the young princess Eliise to live in the village as an ordinary peasant girl and turns all the princes into wild swans. The princes are stuck being swans all day long and only at night can they regain their true form. When Eliise is 15 years old, she learns about the fate of her brothers and now she must overcome the obstacles put in her way by her stepmother in order to release her brothers from the spell.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Piano
Overview: Marta hauls a piano home from a used music shop. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds. A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.
Genres: Drama Comedy Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2015-11-18
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Crocodile
Overview: Ex opera singer works as a Crocodile in a shopping center. Until a femme fatale arrives.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2009-11-18
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Villa Antropoff
Overview: A condom found on an African beach is an impulse for a black man to set off on a dangerous sea journey to Europe, in search of a better life. Meanwhile, Villa Antropoff hosts a typical international wedding party which, with every drink and every drug fix, is becoming increasingly pretentious. An ironic story about dreams and losing dreams. Inspired by a real event, when both directors found themselves at a strange wedding celebration in the villa of former USSR leader Yuri Andropov near Pärnu in Estonia.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Cosmonaut
Overview: An old cosmonaut now lives his life in his flat, the same way as he lived it in a space station. He still does heroic missions, and misses his close relatives. His relatives see it differently. Is this old man capable of dealing with society's norms?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2020-02-24
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Marathon
Overview: In a marathon running, a criminal hides among the runners, after blowing up a statue in the central square.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2006-11-23
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Divers in the Rain
Overview: He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Tiiu and Dragon
Overview: Aunty Tiiu is hosting a dance party at her house and is thrilled when for once more than 3 people show up! Unfortunately the guests are all there because of a dragon attack, but Aunty Tiiu's best friend Marta has asked them to keep it a secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2022-11-14
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A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
Overview: The people are awaiting someone special. Someone special is born: a grown man in a suit.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2018-05-31
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Eeva
Overview: It’s pouring rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2022-11-15
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Antipolis
Overview: In a world within the Earth, Antipolis inhabitants unaware of their globe existence face a shocking revelation when they discover the truth.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2023-08-16
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Black Ceiling
Overview: Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon. Leading actors of the Estonian theater and cinema, as well as the authors of the poems themselves, took part in the dubbing.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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