Darkness in Tallinn (1993)
- Original title
- Tallinn pimeduses
- Directed by
- Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
- Genre
- political thriller film
- Country
- Estonia
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An American writer and a Finnish director teamed up to make this political thriller set in Estonia. The story follows characters caught in a web of corruption and conspiracy.
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What happens
Darkness in Tallinn (a.k.a. City Unplugged; Estonian: Tallinn pimeduses) is a 1993 feature film, a satirical political thriller directed by Ilkka Järvi-Laturi and written by Paul Kolsby. The film premiered on September 12, 1993, at the Toronto Festival of Festivals, and later played at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1994. Written by an American and directed by a Finn (the two met at New York University), the film was one of the more unusual and most popular of 1993. It was reshown at the Rotterdam Filmfestival 2013 for professional audience. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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