Atop a mountain (2016)

„Atop a mountain“ is an adaption from Elviira Mihhaolovna’s novel „Prügimäel“.

Movie is about a middle aged woman named Maria (Kristel Leesment), who is at a dead end in her life. For a while she has been drowning her sorrows in alcohol. Segregated from society, she has created a illusion from which she can’t escape. There is nothing that will bring her to reality. Once she’ll run out of money, she’ll have no plan how to manage. She is deeply alone, trapped in her own illusion. One night she goes to buy another vodka bottle. She meets Georgi (Ivo uukkivi), who has freed himself from all material worries. Maria starts liking Georgi, he is the first in many years. She hopes to find a date for an evening and agrees to go with Georgi. There she finds out that Georgis wealth is not the way to a happy and free life. 

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