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Riho Unt

Riho Unt

Directing

Biography

Riho Unt (born May 15, 1956 in Kose-Risti) is an Estonian animated film director, scenarist, artist. In 2001 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class

Known For

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
4.4

Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

2018
Animated Self-Portraits
6.1

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Animated Self-Portraits

1989
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
6.8

A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The adventures begin, when a boss of a bunch of criminals finds out about the painting.

Lamb in the Down Right Corner

1992
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6.5

A parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on a plot of land that belongs to a poor Estonian peasant woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia

Cabbage Head

1993
The War
7.7

The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning. Somewhere outside the mill another war is fought.

The War

1987
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs
N/A

Having spent her entire life behind the convent walls, old and dignified nun Mary decides to fulfill her childhood dream. The only obstacle on her way is her fragmentary, almost non-existent memory. Mary is afraid that her ultimate dream may turn out to be a sin instead.

Mary and the Seven Dwarfs

2017
The Enchanted Island
5.7

A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.

The Enchanted Island

1985
Primavera
N/A

PRIMAVERA is a three dimensional film featuring puppets that work in the so called telescope system which tries with the help of stylised images to visually depict the great variety existing in nature, the food chain and variations in the reproduction of different living organisms. The entire film is seen through the eyes of a butterfly larva.

Primavera

1998
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
10.0

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.

Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

2023
Lili
N/A

A herd of war-torn and hungry rats tries to get an answer to the question of who is Lili Marleen from a mortally wounded young soldier stuck in a projectile funnel. Is it a reminder of first love or first relationship with a prostitute earning her daily bread? Lili Marleen is not just a distant heroine from a song. Every soldier boy has her own Lili, be it his first love from school or just an imagination. But always, no matter what happens, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate...

Lili

2008
Saamuel's Internet
8.0

Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.

Saamuel's Internet

2000
The Master
7.0

A dog, Popi, and a monkey named Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home. But one day it becomes clear that he’s not going to be coming home anymore. From that day their mutual lives begin. While he is actually smarter and stronger than his simian companion, Popi capitulates to every one of Huhuu’s whims in a show of obedience and subservience. Huhuu meanwhile becomes a symbol of licentiousness and tomfoolery. The film is based on the short story "Popi and Huhuu" by Estonian author Friedebert Tuglas.

The Master

2015
North Dragon
4.0

With the help of Põrguneitsi, the mythological virgin of hell, a young man saves the world. When he later comes to understand that he has not changed anyone's attitude, he leads the world to ruins again.

North Dragon

2007
Miriam's Kite
N/A

The hen enjoys playing around with kites. When Miriam has no more time for it, the hen convinces the little brother to go along. But the kite is too big for little brother and it flies him up to a treetop. Miriam and the hen need to act fast to get him down. As joint effort it works.

Miriam's Kite

2013
Brothers and Sisters
10.0

A grotesque and absurd school life. Focuses on characters who are incapable of development, who communicate, grow old and die in a classroom.

Brothers and Sisters

1991
Tuljak
N/A

Short animation about freedom and peoples' ability to be free.

Tuljak

Brothers Bearhearts
6.7

The heroes of the film are three bear cubs from the cult painting by Ivan Shishkin "Morning in a Pine Forest". After losing their painter mom, the three brothers Henry, Vincent, and August appear in Paris, the City of Light every creator dreams of. All attempts to earn their living as artists fail. Their impressionistic "collies" won't be acknowledged. Under cover as circus lions, the bear cubs travel back to Russia to find the heritage of their mom.

Brothers Bearhearts

2005
Star Bride
N/A

A story based on estonian folk song about the girl Salme, who is choosing between three fiancés – Sun, Moon and Star.

Star Bride

1984
Jackpot
10.0

It is a political parody film against totalitarian system of violence, about the careless game of power that has been played with the world and peoples.

Jackpot

1990
The Wings
N/A

Freak inventor Jaan's far fetched dreams about ascending to the clouds are about to materialize when he's joined by the great Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci's spirit. Instead, Jaan's wife Lisa, neglected by the crazy genius, gets metamorphosed into a winged creature and is "catapulted" into the blue skies, where dreams meet.

The Wings

2019