Filmmaker Tanel Toom had avoided the classic Estonian novel, 'Truth and Justice.' But once he finally read it, he saw the universal — and personal — truths.
Author A.H. Tammsaare is hardly a household name in North America, but in Estonia he’s one of the nation’s most prominent literary figures. If American high school students are reading John Steinbeck’s ”The Grapes of Wrath” or “Romeo and Juliet,”
“During that time, I had already graduated from two film schools. I’d gone to the army. I was more mature and had some kind of life experience when I finally read it,” Toom says. “And thank God that it happened [that way]. That I wasn’t ruining this book for myself when I was 17 because I know that if I would have read it then, I would have never ever understood it.”a full year to figure out how to map out the structure of the novel in screenplay form.
The production itself proved almost as challenging as adapting Tammsaare’s opus. Because the story takes place over 24 years, Toom felt it necessary to shoot the picture during all four seasons. In his view, soundstages or digital work simply wouldn’t do with Robber’s Rise being so much a part of the film.Some of those seasons would have the initial layout of Robber’s Rise in Andres’ early years and then the larger compound over a decade later.
That was a minor issue compared with Toom’s biggest challenge. A majority of the picture is filmed outside and what plagued the shooting schedule was, of course, the weather.
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