Viimne reliikvia
| Viimne reliikvia (The Last Relic) | |
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| Directed by | Grigori Kromanov |
| Produced by | Tallinnfilm |
| Starring | Aleksandr Goloborodko, Ingrīda Andriņa |
| Music by | Tõnu Naissoo, Uno Naissoo |
| Edited by | Virve Laev, V. Payev |
| Distributed by | Tallinnfilm |
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• 1969 Estonian SSR, USSR • 3 September 1971 (Finland) • 15 March 2002 re-release (Estonia) |
| Country | Estonian SSR, USSR |
| Language | Estonian |
Viimne reliikvia (Estonian for The last Relic) is a 1969 Estonian film adaptation of Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad (Estonian for Prince Gabriel or The Last Days of Pirita Monastery), a historical novel by Eduard Bornhöhe. The film became extremely popular, and some critics consider it the only Estonian cult movie.
The movie is set during a Livonian War era peasant uprising. A central plot device is the Pirita monastery, a real monastery dedicated to St. Brigitta. Currently, the monastery's original medieval buildings lie in ruins and are kept that way as a museum, but an organisational structure, complete with nuns, was restored after the end of Soviet occupation.
Scenes for the movie were recorded in Tallinn Old Town, passages of the Dominican monastery of Tallinn, Taevaskoja, as well as other places. A mock monastery was built in Kukerand, near Virtsu. Several outdoors scenes were taken in Latvia, near the Gauja river. Indoors scenes were, among other places, taken in the fortress of Kuressaare and the Tallinn church of St. Nicholas.
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