Janno Põldma

Writing

Janno Põldma

Born November 7, 1950 · Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia] (age 75)

Janno Põldma (born November 7, 1950 in Tallinn) is an Estonian film director and children's writer. Since 1973 he has worked in Tallinnfilm Studio. He has filmed about 20 animated films, mostly Priit Pärn's films.

Known For

Tõll the GiantTõll the Giant · 1980
Tõll the Giant
★ 6.81980
MovieAnimationFantasy
An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa.
Breakfast on the GrassBreakfast on the Grass · 1987
Breakfast on the Grass
★ 6.01987
MovieAnimationComedy
Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
Time OutTime Out · 1985
Time Out
★ 5.91985
MovieFantasyAnimation
An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.
Lotte and the Lost DragonsLotte and the Lost Dragons · 2019
Lotte and the Lost Dragons
★ 7.22019
MovieAnimationFamily
Lotte gets a little sister named Roosi. Two scientists Karl and Viktor come to Gadgetville, they are taking part in a big folk song collecting competition. Whoever succeeds in recording the folk song of the world’s oldest animal species, wins the competition’s grand prize. Lotte and Roosi decide to help the scientists. Exciting and unexpected adventures await the sisters.
Klaabu in SpaceKlaabu in Space · 1981
Klaabu in Space
★ 6.31981
MovieAnimation
Fantastic film about the space trip of Klaabu, Ninni and Pessik, to their help to the habitats of other planet in a release from the yoke of ominous Mushroom and transformation of motherland in a flowering garden.
HellHell · 1983
Hell
★ 5.51983
MovieAnimationFantasy
Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.
The FieldThe Field · 1978
The Field
★ 7.01978
MovieAnimation
A black/white world, slow heavy labor, each frame crossfaded into the next.
Judo BoysJudo Boys · 1987
Judo Boys
1987
MovieTV MovieFamily
Estonian tv movie adapted from a children's novel.

Filmography

Sort