Toell the Great (Suur Tõll, 1980) by Rein Raamat

Current Page || History

Toell the Great
Suur Tõll
Suur Toell (et)
Velký Tyll (cs)
Tõll el Grande (es)
Большой Тылл (ru)

Year 1980
Director(s) Raamat Rein
Studio(s) Tallinnfilm
Language(s) Estonian
Russian
Genre(s) Folklore & myth (Rus./USSR minorities)
Serious
War & battles
Animation Type(s)  Drawn (cel)
Length 00:14:11
Wordiness 2.64
Animator.ru profile Ru, En
604 visitors

Subtitles:
Suur Toell.1980.cs.1.25fps.1543735573.srt
Date: December 02 2018 07:26:13
Language: Czech
Quality: unknown
Upload notes:
Creator(s): wero1000

Suur Toell.1980.en.1.25fps.1293623556.srt
Date: December 29 2010 11:52:36
Language: English
Quality: good
Upload notes:
Creator(s): Heinrich Sepp, Niffiwan

Suur Toell.1980.es.1.25fps.1337046593.srt
Date: May 15 2012 01:49:53
Language: Spanish
Quality: unknown
Upload notes: 104 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Yefren

Suur Toell.1980.ru.1.25fps.1312351073.srt
Date: August 03 2011 05:57:53
Language: Russian
Quality: unknown
Upload notes:
Creator(s): ?



Is the video not playing correctly? Click here.

Description:

Toell the Great is the giant leader of the Estonian island of Saaremaa. When war comes to the land, he goes off to fight, but leaves his home unguarded from the local enemy...

There was also an accompanying illustrated children's book released - you can read it here (recommended).

The second video-link above is the Russian-language version of the film that was made around the same time (for distribution outside of Estonia), scanned from 35mm film in 2022 by Юрий Голубцов. It is in the original frame rate of 24fps, while the first video is in the TV frame rate of 25fps. Note that the Russian subtitles are not based on this version, but on a translation from Estonian.

 

DISCUSSION



1.Admin

The voice work in the Russian version isn't awful, but it's just not as good as the Estonian. And children who are too young to read probably shouldn't be watching this one anyway, so there really seems to be not too much reason for the Russian version to exist (other than it being standard practice at the time to make one - and apparently quite a lot of young kids back then across the whole country did end up watching this).


Reply


To add comment, please login or register.