Film: Himmelstreppe/TaevatreppWirklich ... wahr? – Estonian film series
This event is in the past.
Mart Kivastik’s tragicomic film Taevatrepp tells a story of time, music, friendship and love, modern-day life and childhood in the Estonia of the 1970s.
This event is in the past.
Mart Kivastik’s tragicomic film Taevatrepp tells a story of time, music, friendship and love, modern-day life and childhood in the Estonia of the 1970s.
A dying friend entrusts Ulf, commonly known as Uu, with the secret of travelling back in time. Uu, an engineer, doesn’t believe in miracles. But it turns out the trick works, and one autumn day in Tartu finds himself in a parallel reality, where summer is eternal, hair is long and the girls are pretty. In his own present-day reality, it is still autumn, his friends are embittered, all the girls are married and his father is severely ill. Eventually, Uu must decide where to spend the rest of his life: the balmy summer of days gone by or the grey autumn of the present.
Mart Kivastik, born in 1963 in Tartu, Estonia, is a film director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He studied Estonian philology at the University of Tartu. His stories have been translated into English, Finnish, Russian and Hungarian. His novel Taevatrepp was awarded the Eduard Vilde Literature Prize in 2020. In 2023, he was voted Tartu’s Writer of the Year.
Estonia 2023, 107 minutes, original language with German subtitles. Directed by Mart Kivastik
Tickets available from 1 April at München Ticket
