Siin me oleme!

"Siin me oleme!" ("Here we are") was last and I think best of famous trilogy of comedy ace Sulev Nõmmik. The multi-talented (started as ballet artists, worked as stand-up comedian, directed musicals etc.) guy was one of few Estonian movie directors who knew how to make really catchy and funny films. He had his certain cast and his movies were simple, compact and well edited. "Siin me oleme" is actually something like musical, filled with hilarious songs and music. It is basing on Juhan Smuul's (writer and poet of Estonia, heavily heralded by Soviet power) satirical monologue about urban middle-aged pair trying to spend summer vacation in small island among a fisherman's family. The movie contains bunch of impressive characters, loads of funny gags, some romantics (sometimes tongue in cheek), but most importantly, great dialogs. And some of them were TOO risky. For example, first lines we hear from Kohviveski (the grotesque middle aged madam from big city): "WE are the SOVIET people, we PAY!". And so on. After the movie the career of film director Sulev Nõmmik was halted and he never recovered. He continued as successful comedian and director of TV shows but only movie he made late was a short pseudo-documentary in late 80s.