World premiere

Mephistopheles

Local title
Mephistopheles
Original title
Mephistopheles
Director
Manfred Vainokivi
Country
Estonia
Year
2020
Programme
Baltic Film Competition

The best comedy of recent years. Or is it a tragicomedy?

"Your film will be a screw-up, of course. I’m SOOO complex that your thoughts, Manfred, can maybe capture only 10 percent of me."

"You won’t get film about him, Manfred! He can give you a clever talk, but he’s rather vacant as a person." (A recommendation from a colleague filmmaker)

From time to time, Mephistopheles manifests himself to the Estonian people through Linnar Priimägi. The released energy gives birth to chaos. Manfred Vainokivi tries his hardest to portray the one who causes it. Unsuccessfully, of course. Because even the largest letters are unreadable in twilight, as Goethe said. And there is a lot of twilight now. At least according to Linnar.

Tiit Tuumalu

Director
Manfred Vainokivi
Screenwriter
Manfred Vainokivi
Producer
Marju Lepp
DoP
Manfred Vainokivi
Editor
Kersti Miilen
Sound
Horret Kuus, Henri Kuus
Production
Filmivabrik
Runtime
Language
Estonian
Subtitles
English
Trailer
Q&A with the filmmaker