8 Views of Lake Biwa

    8 Views of Lake Biwa
    2024

    Synopsis

    "8 views" is an eastern art tradition where one place (primarily the area around Lake Biwa in Japan) is described through eight motifs, among which are scarlet, snow, sailboats returning home in the evening, rain, autumn moon, temple bell, gust of wind, flight of forest geese. These motifs frame eight intertwining tragic love stories, the setting of which are modern Russian fishing villages of old believers on the border of Estonian-Russian settlements and cultures by Lake Peipsi. The spiritualization of everything living and inanimate from Japanese animism, the eroticism of shunga and the humble language of prayer merge into a spiritual and magical world of a small community, where one still believes that one is connected with everything.

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      Cast

      • Elina MasingHanake
      • Tiina TauraiteÕnne
      • Maarja JakobsonRabbit Eye
      • Jan UuspõldOlger
      • Meelis RämmeldAndrei
      • Kärt KokkotaSeashell
      • Erki LaurAin
      • Hendrik Toompere Jr.Roman
      • Tommi KorpelaPlanton
      • Simeoni SundjaKiri
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