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2019 Oscar® Selection, Estonia.

Tanel Toom's directorial debut, adapted from a cornerstone of Estonian literature, has become the most successful film release of all time in Estonia — surpassing even James Cameron's AVATAR. Toom gives suitably epic treatment to the acclaimed novel by Estonian author Anton Hansen Tammsaare, whose magnum opus, a sprawling five-part work written between 1926 and 1933, chronicles the changes in Estonian society as it moved from a small, rural province in the Russian Empire in the late 19th century to an independent, modernizing nation in the early part of the 20th. Toom's film focuses mainly on "Part One" of Tammsaare's novel, beginning in 1870, where the hearty and hard-working young farmer Andres Paas and his wife Krõõt turn around a failing farm at Robber's Rise, battling not only the elements, but also their jealous and duplicitous neighbor, Pearu Tagapere.

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