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Smile at Last (1985)
Directed by Leida Laius
Drama, Family · 1h 25m
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.
Cast
Monika Raide
Hendrik Toompere
Tauri Tallermaa
Katrin Tamleht
Edith-Helen Kuusk
Siiri Sisask
Helle Kuningas
Mari Lill
Evald Hermaküla
Eduard Tinn
Crew
- Director
- Leida Laius
- Screenplay
- Marina Sheptunova
- Novel
- Silvia Rannamaa
- Director of Photography
- Arvo Iho
- Original Music Composer
- Lepo Sumera
- Editor
- Kersti Miilen
- Producer
- Ants Tomband
Details
- Original title
- Naerata ometi
- Release date
- 1985-11-28
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Original language
- ET
- Spoken languages
- English, Estonian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Tallinnfilm