Estonia’s Taska Film, Baltic Cinema Chain Apollo Team Up on Soviet-Era, Coming-of-Age Rock Drama ‘Dirt in Your Face’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Estonia’s Taska Film, the production company behind local box-office hits such as medieval crime thriller “Melchior the Apothecary,” hits Locarno’s Match Me!
industry sessions with a slate that includes Jaak Kilmi’s “Dirt in Your Face,” a coming-of-age rock drama set in the twilight of the Soviet Union backed in part by Apollo, the largest cinema chain in the Baltic region.
The film follows 17-year-old Mihkel and his band as they go on a journey full of alcohol, protest and music to impress a Western producer visiting a rock festival in 1980s Soviet Estonia.
In their struggle to keep the band together, the group inadvertently help split the Soviet Union apart. “Dirt in Your Face” is written by Martin Algus and based on the bestseller of the same name by Mihkel Raud, a former member of the ’80s band Golem (pictured) on whom the movie is based.
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