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Estonian Film Classics at Kai Cinema: “Ideaalmaastik”

On 24 October 2026 the cinema of Kai Art Centre screens Peeter Simm’s feature film “Ideaalmaastik” as part of the special Estonian Film Classics programme. At 15.45 Eva Näripea, director of the Estonian Film Archives, gives an introduction on the background of the films and their significance in Estonian film history. The screening starts at 16.00 and the film lasts 91 minutes. The drama, made in 1980, is set in an Estonian village during the spring sowing of the 1950s, in the early years of the collective farm system. The main character Mait Kukemeri arrives in the countryside as a Komsomol commissioner whose task is to ensure that the sowing plan is met, but his actions clash with the views and circumstances of the local people. The film stars Arvo Kukumägi, Tõnu Kark, Kalju Komissarov and Priit Adamson. The screening belongs to the two-day programme “Estonian Film Classics: Simm & Kruusement”.