Suur Tõll (film)

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Movie
Original title Suur Tõll
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Estonian
Publishing year 1980
length 14 minutes
Rod
Director Purely Raamat
script Purely Raamat
music Lepo Sumera
camera Janno Põldma

Suur Tõll is a Soviet fantasy cartoon short film made by Tallinnfilm in 1980. It was directed by Rein Raamat , who also wrote the screenplay. The animations are mainly from Jüri Arrak , Heiki Ernits , Ain Silbaum and Valter Uusberg also contributed to the animations .

The film premiered on January 4, 1981 at the Octoober Cinema in Tallinn . It was broadcast on Estonian television on the same day.

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The film is based on Suur Tõll , a heroic and helpful giant from Estonian mythology . He lives with his wife on the Estonian island of Saaremaa , where he tills his fields and helps the people there, for example, in distress at sea or with food. Suur Tõll and loyal people are at war with a diabolical enemy, the Vanatühi (also called Vanapagan ) and his armies from the underworld, who have landed on the island with a large war fleet and devastate it. While Suur Tõll is on the battlefield to get reinforcements on two huge wagon wheels full of warriors in their arms and then hit the opponents with the wheels, Vanatühi sneakily kills his wife by causing her house to collapse. When Suur Tõll is back home, he finds her dead and goes looking for Vanatühi. He pursues him until he finally pushes him off a cliff, whereupon Vanatühi falls into the sea and is swallowed by the waves.

When Suur Tõll then buried his wife and mourned her, he again supports the people against the invading monster warriors on the battlefield by smashing the enemies with a huge car. In the course of the fight, the car breaks. Some of them crash into the anchored enemy fleet and sink them. When he wants to pick up the rest of the other part of the car as a weapon, he is beheaded by the great monster leader with a huge sword when he bends down to get it. However, Suur Tõll can grab his butcher and crush his head without a head. When the monsters see that their general has died, they flee the battlefield in a panic. Suur Tõll then picks up his head, takes it in both hands and walks a bit until he falls over and finally finds his final resting place as if petrified.

useful information

  • Contrary to popular tradition, Suur Tõll does not put his decapitated head on his sword (which he does not carry in the film), but takes it in his hands and then goes to his final resting place.
  • Excerpts from the film were used by the folk metal band Metsatöll in their music video for the song Vaid Vaprust from their 2010 album Äio .

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