Janno Põldma

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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

Tyll the GiantTyll the Giant · 1980
Tyll the Giant
6.81980
MovieAnimationFantasy
Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home.
ColourbirdColourbird · 1974
Colourbird
6.01974
MovieAnimation
A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colors, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.
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.
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.
Breakfast on the GrassBreakfast on the Grass · 1987
Breakfast on the Grass
5.91987
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.
Three Jolly FellowsThree Jolly Fellows · 1990
Three Jolly Fellows
7.01990
MovieAnimationTV Movie
Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff.
HellHell · 1983
Hell
5.21983
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.

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