November

Name: November
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Horror
Released: 2017-02-03
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 6.97

★ 7,0 /10 (199 Votes)

2017 ET 115 min

Overview

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Release date

03/02/2017

Votes

199

Popularity

1.7

Genres

Drama Fantasy Romance Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

115 min

Budget

$1,550,000

Revenue

$19,084

Website

www.homelessbob.ee

Rea Lest-Liik

Liina

Jörgen Liik

Hans / Snowman (voice)

Arvo Kukumägi

Rein

Heino Kalm

Sander

Meelis Rämmeld

Jaan

Katariina Unt

Luise

Taavi Eelmaa

Ints

Dieter Laser

Baron

Jette Loona Hermanis

Baroness

Jaan Tooming

Devil

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Klara Eighorn

Witch

Ene Pappel

Imbi

Enn Lillemets

Ärni

Taimo Kõrvemaa

Endel

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Tiina Keeman

Rosalie

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Heino Paljak

Pastor

Ilmar Meos

Ancestral Spirit

Aare Lutsar

Ancestral Spirit

Mari Abel

Liina's Mother's Ghost

Aire Koop

Hans's Mother's Ghost

Jonathan Peterson

Young Man in Gondola

Linda Porkanen

Lady in Gondola

Maria Aua

Plague

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Mart Laoväli

Timofei

Jaak Juhkam

Tradesman

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Aksella Liimets

Old Baroness

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Ado Tikerpäe

Gondolier

Joshua Albano

Young Man in Gondola (voice)

Sally Mometti

Lady in Gondola (voice)

Karin Moog

Baroness (voice)

Linnar Priimägi

Kratt Joosep (voice)

Margus Prangel

3-legged Kratt (voice) / Tradesman (voice)

Ester Kuntu

Plague (voice)

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In the real world, magical thinking is a type of fallacy and a source of many superstitions, but in a film like November, it can be the difference between life and death, salvation and damnation. The characters in this Bergmanesque Estonian-German fairy tale, written and directed by Rainer Sarnet, live in a village surrounded by an honest-to-goodness Haunted Forest, although for them it would be weird if it weren’t haunted — to put it in perspective, pacts with the devil are so common that cunning villagers manage to fool the devil by using the sap of blackcurrants instead of blood to sign the…

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*November* opens with what appears to be a skeletal farm-machine monster bursting into a cowshed. It confronts a cow, hooks it up and then, rather than slaughtering it, flies away with it. That is about as useful an introduction to Rainer Sarnet’s film as you could ask for. *November* spends much of its running time allowing you to decide what sort of thing you are looking at, then quietly informing you that you were wrong. Its Estonian villagers live in spectacular poverty, surrounded by mud, livestock, hunger and the dead, yet supernatural events barely merit comment. Ancestors return …

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