City Unplugged
(DVD)
DIRECTED BY - Ilkka Jarvilaturi
A heist film tinged with black comedy, the story begins in 1991, with Estonia having just declared its independence from the Soviet Union. A band of gangsters hatch a plan to hijack the small Baltic nation's $1 billion worth of bullion, about to return to the capital after years of hiding in Paris. Toivo, a naive electrician, is commissioned to perform the key element in the plan - plummeting the city to darkness on the appointed midnight hour. Not a hardened criminal, Toivo is encouraged by his very pregnant wife to take the job. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat story involving childbirth, blackout, politics, and above all, love.
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Film Info
RUNTIME - 95 minutes
YEAR - 2007
COUNTRY - Estonia
LANGUAGE - Estonian
SUBTITLES - English, Chinese, Japanese, Finnish
ATTRIBUTES - Widescreen, Color, Black & White
SPECIAL FEATURES (DVD Only) -
A heist film tinged with black comedy the story is based in Estonia. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, become a sleeper hit at Sundance, and went on to win the "Silver Alexander" at the Thessaloniki Film Festival The film was praised by the Village Voice as "A Superbly Taut Thriller"
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| CAST | |
|---|---|
| Ivo Uukkivi | Toivo |
| Milena Gulbe | Maria |
| Juri Jarvet | Anton |
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FESTIVALS
Awards
- R.W. Fassbinder Prize
1993 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Mannheim, Germany) - Silver Alexander
1993 Thessaloniki Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Press
"A Classic. City Unplugged is pretty hard to beat." – BBC
"#5 on my all time best movies list." – Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later
"Superbly taut thriller." – The Village Voice
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