Official selection
Anima Brussel, Istanbul International Film Festival, Blon Animation and Games Festival, Cinema Next, 2020 Anifilm, 2020 Moscow International Film Festival
Honors
Audience Award - Anima Brussel
Director
Oskar Lehemaa, Mikk Mägi
Writer
Oskar Lehemaa, Mikk Mägi, Peeter Ritso
Cast
Kristjan Lüüs, Mikk Mägi, Indrek Ojari, Jan Uuspõld
Producer
Veiko Esken, Erik Heinsalu
Cinematographer
Urmas Jõemees
Sound Designer
Tanel Kadalipp
Composer
Lauri Kadalipp, Sten-Olle Moldau
Editor
Oskar Lehemaa
Animator
Egert Kesa, Olga Stalev
contact
BOP! Animation Studio
A trio of city kids are dropped off for the summer at their grandfather’s farm for a taste of country living. Enough with the smartphones and videogames and other amenities of modern urban life. Time for them to toughen up, dirty their hands, and learn the value of hard work. Their grandfather will see to that. That includes the care and maintenance of the Old Man’s miserable cow, which must be milked, lest a shocking disaster from the dark past of the village repeat itself. A sinister survivor of that disaster, by the way, lurks in the shadows with dire intent. When the precious cow escapes into the wild, a crisis is set in motion, and so begins a hair-raising hellride of back-country horrors, gross-out gags, and rural surrealism breaks loose.
Baltic country-bumpkin shock comedy THE OLD MAN: THE MOVIE is not a film for the faint of heart, the squeamish, easily nauseated, lactose-intolerant, or humour-impaired. It’s a feature-length expansion of Peeter Ritso and Mikk Mägi’s animated webseries, initiated in 2012 as little more than a wry joke while in school. It became hugely successful, which prompts some very serious concerns about the moral and psychological health of the Estonian people. In any case, the derisive look at life out in farm country is pretty universal, as are the assorted bodily functions and effluvia that soon enough stain the screen. Written and directed by Mägi and Oskar Lehemaa (BAD HAIR), THE OLD MAN: THE MOVIE is a high-water mark for stop-motion animation, and a glorious new low in lowbrow laughs! – Rupert Bottenberg
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