Magnus is a sensitive boy growing up in a family that doesn't care about him at all. He suffers from a potentially deadly lung disease and plays the strangest games to cheat death. Ten years later, modern medicine cures Magnus, but his desire to die does not go away. After his second suicide attempt, the father finally becomes alarmed, trying to persuade his son to continue living. The father-son relationship, difficult and sometimes funny, leads us to an unexpected end.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 26 min.
- Country, year
- Estonia, United Kingdom, 2007
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Estonian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Kadri Kõusaar
- Screenplay
- Kadri Kõusaar
- Cinematography
- Pawel Sobczyk
- Cast
- Anu Aaremae, Piret Avila, Hellar Bergmann, Boris Burachinski
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Kadri Kõusaar
Kadri Kõusaar was born in 1980 in Estonia. In 2001, she graduated with a degree in Spanish from the University of Tartu. Her final work is a short story "Ego". She now works as a freelance writer and director, as well as for the newspaper Eesti Ekspress. Magnus is her first feature film.