Leyda LAIUS
Лейда ЛАЙУС
Leïda LAIOUS
USSR (Russia), 1979, 88mn 
fiction
The Master of Kõrboja
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Хозяин Кырбоя

 

 The Master of Kõrboja

 Khozyan Kyrboya

Other titles : Kõrboja peremees
 
Directed by : Leyda LAIUS (Лейда ЛАЙУС)
Writing credits : Leyda LAIUS (Лейда ЛАЙУС)
 
Cast
Kaie MIHKELSON (Кайе МИХКЕЛСОН) ...Anna Kõrboja
Lembit PETERSON (Лембит ПЕТЕРСОН) ...Katku Villu
Igor EFIMOV (Игорь ЕФИМОВ)
Ita EVER (Ита ЭВЕР) ...Eevi's Mother
Tatyana IVANOVA (Татьяна ИВАНОВА)
Aleksandr SUSNIN (Александр СУСНИН)
Lev ZHUKOV (Лев ЖУКОВ )
 
Cinematography : Ago RUUS (Аго РУУС)
Music : Lepo SUMERA (Лепо СУМЕРА)
Production : Tallinfilm
 
Sites : Kino-teatr, IMDb

Plot synopsis
Based on the novel "The Master of the Kõrboja Estate" by the Estonian writer and classic of Estonian literature Anton Hansen Tamsaare (1878-1940).

A film about the drama of two young people who are said to be "different from everyone else." Anna, the heiress to a wealthy estate, and Villu, a young man from the farmstead, are truly restless natures, least inclined to consider the opinions of their fellow villagers or respect family traditions. Both, on the same day, albeit separately, return to their family nests: Anna, having received an education in the city, and Villu, having served a prison sentence for murder in a brawl.

From their conversations, we learn the reason for Kyrboy's anxiety: the headstrong Anna plans to marry a dissolute farmer and make him the master of the estate. However, the lyrical dreams of the heiress Kyrboy are not destined to come true...

The film was dubbed at the Lenfilm studio.
kino-teatr.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2026
- Baltic Soviet films, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

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