21st Annual European Union Film Festival
- Rodeo: Taming a Wild Country
- Estonia/Finland2018
- Raimo Jõerand
- 77 DCP
- NR
- EUFF 2018
Screening Dates
- November 25, 2018 8:30
“This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day.”
Institute of Documentary Film, Prague
In 1992, less than a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia held its first free election since World War II. This compelling political documentary, a highlight of Hot Docs’ “Changing Face of Europe” platform, focuses on the chaos that surrounded that historic event, and the unlikely 32-year-old idealist who emerged victorious, becoming Europe’s youngest Prime Minister in the process. Featuring archival footage and newly conducted interviews with high-profile politicians at the centre of the storm, Rodeo offers absorbing, entertaining insights into the course correction of a country eager to erase its Soviet past.