A young intellectual, Mati, engineers himself into a situation where he has to spend a weekend with his wife Helina and her lover Eduard. The trio goes to Eduard's summer house, surrounded by the majestic scenery of big forests and an empty beach. Mati, either out of jealousy or pride, has decided to win back his wife and will do anything his introverted and inert mind can come up with.
Direction
Õunpuu's deadpan staging turns humiliation into high art.
Cinematography
Bleak Baltic beaches that mirror emotional desolation.
Director
Veiko Õunpuu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Estonian New Wave' that emerged post-Soviet independence, reflecting a generation's unease with emotional directness.
The title 'Tühirand' literally means 'empty beach' — the landscape becomes a fourth character, indifferent to human suffering.
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