Priit Pärn

Directing

Priit Pärn

Born

1946-08-26 (80)

Place of birth

Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Priit Pärn (born August 26, 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for Kilplased (1974). After a brief apprenticeship in Joonisfilm, he directed his first film Is the Earth Round? in 1977. Pärn's most important films are considered to be Triangle (1982), Breakfast on the Grass (1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (co-directed by Janno Põldma, 1995) and Night of the Carrots (1998). Pärn's style is characterized by black humour, playful surrealism an…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Visions of Europe poster
5.1

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Visions of Europe

2004

Time Out poster
5.9

An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.

Time Out

1985

Time Out poster
5.9

An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.

Time Out

1985

The Pigeon Lady poster
7.0

A fun and educational story about the nature of goodness. It's not just a natural and self-evident part of our lives, but a force that helps overcome many obstacles that come our way in life.

The Pigeon Lady

1983

Fly Mill poster
NR

The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.

Fly Mill

2011

Breakfast on the Grass poster
6.0

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.

Breakfast on the Grass

1987

Breakfast on the Grass poster
6.0

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.

Breakfast on the Grass

1987

Luna Rossa poster
4.5

Despite a comprehensive security camera system and efficient airport security checks, a group of activists succeed in their diabolical plan.

Luna Rossa

2024

Luna Rossa poster
4.5

Despite a comprehensive security camera system and efficient airport security checks, a group of activists succeed in their diabolical plan.

Luna Rossa

2024

Night of the Carrots poster
7.1

Diego the bicyclist waits to check into the PGI hotel, where each room's inhabitant seems more bizarre than the last, and the rabbits on the top floor have discovered the secret of voodoo, using electronics and carrots. Can the rare and unpredictable night of the carrots save everyone, or will their connections to the room's electrical sockets restrain them too much? Will Diego find love with an egg that speaks incessantly in German? Will the cellist, who is actually a room full of a gelatinous substance, affected in some way by buttons labeled K, G, and B, have dreams that explain everything? Or will the audience just leave scratching their heads? Not all questions get answered.

Night of the Carrots

1998

Night of the Carrots poster
7.1

Diego the bicyclist waits to check into the PGI hotel, where each room's inhabitant seems more bizarre than the last, and the rabbits on the top floor have discovered the secret of voodoo, using electronics and carrots. Can the rare and unpredictable night of the carrots save everyone, or will their connections to the room's electrical sockets restrain them too much? Will Diego find love with an egg that speaks incessantly in German? Will the cellist, who is actually a room full of a gelatinous substance, affected in some way by buttons labeled K, G, and B, have dreams that explain everything? Or will the audience just leave scratching their heads? Not all questions get answered.

Night of the Carrots

1998

...And Plays Tricks poster
6.0

A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks.

...And Plays Tricks

1978

...And Plays Tricks poster
6.0

A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks.

...And Plays Tricks

1978

Noblesse Oblige poster
7.5

Balancing on the borders of the real and the unreal the film strives to express the monotony of this world, its illusory character, and emphasize the lack of spirituality in everyday routine.

Noblesse Oblige

1989

Fairytale About His Majesty poster
10.0

A satirical puppet film about the devastation alcohol causes to the human body.

Fairytale About His Majesty

1974

Frank & Wendy poster
7.3

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...

Frank & Wendy

2005

Song of Songs poster
NR

A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.

Song of Songs

2010

Hotel E poster
4.6

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

Hotel E

1992

Hotel E poster
4.6

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

Hotel E

1992

Is the Earth Round? poster
4.5

A boy sets out to prove the world is round by walking in one direction and ending up where he started.

Is the Earth Round?

1977

Is the Earth Round? poster
4.5

A boy sets out to prove the world is round by walking in one direction and ending up where he started.

Is the Earth Round?

1977

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life poster
4.7

A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life

1981

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life poster
4.7

A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.

Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life

1981

Theatre Papa Carlo poster
8.0

A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.

Theatre Papa Carlo

1988

Animated Self-Portraits poster
6.0

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Animated Self-Portraits

1989

Animated Self-Portraits poster
6.0

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Animated Self-Portraits

1989

Karl and Marilyn poster
6.7

Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called ordinary people, after which he crosses paths with fame-seeking Marilyn. Ordinary Karl is the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the masses. But not for long...

Karl and Marilyn

2003

Karl and Marilyn poster
6.7

Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called ordinary people, after which he crosses paths with fame-seeking Marilyn. Ordinary Karl is the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the masses. But not for long...

Karl and Marilyn

2003

Life Without Gabriella Ferri poster
5.4

A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall. To get away from the situation, he escapes into a virtual world. But when the man finds himself inopportunely stuck out on the balcony of the apartment, a burglar gets into the building. At the same time, in a neighbouring apartment, spies are getting ready to listen in on a group of scientists.

Life Without Gabriella Ferri

2008

Life Without Gabriella Ferri poster
5.4

A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall. To get away from the situation, he escapes into a virtual world. But when the man finds himself inopportunely stuck out on the balcony of the apartment, a burglar gets into the building. At the same time, in a neighbouring apartment, spies are getting ready to listen in on a group of scientists.

Life Without Gabriella Ferri

2008

It Moves? It Moves! poster
NR

Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute. While the man was walking, a ball falls from the sky, and he gets the idea to build a machine in his head. At first it was just a cart. Time flies quickly, and the man finds himself in the 20th century, where he transforms the cart into a car and tests it.

It Moves? It Moves!

1977

The Triangle poster
5.2

Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.

The Triangle

1982

The Triangle poster
5.2

Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.

The Triangle

1982

1895 poster
6.9

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?

1895

1995

1895 poster
6.9

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?

1895

1995

I Feel in the Back of My Head... poster
5.0

Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit Pärn.

I Feel in the Back of My Head...

2007

I Feel in the Back of My Head... poster
5.0

Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit Pärn.

I Feel in the Back of My Head...

2007

No artwork available
NR

Animation film.

The Easy Writer

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Divers in the Rain poster
8.0

He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.

Divers in the Rain

2009

Divers in the Rain poster
8.0

He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.

Divers in the Rain

2009