Since he's (Mart Sander) unable to sleep, he one night decides to listen to Dr. Sander's sleep cure tape - which just pulls him down one rabbithole after the next:

• Rich heiress Bea (Ingrid Margus) can't help but emitting music everywhere she goes, a condition that nobody can explain let alone cure - and it soon turns her into an annoyance in high society circles. So she decides to travel to the country to... well, basically just stop embarrassing herself. And then she meets stone deaf Damian (Ingmar Joela), who weirdly enough manages to dure her - but that cure comes with a price ...
• An astronomer (Mart Sander) tells a barmaid (Triin Lellep) how the bar she runs has been cursed for centuries - and she soaks up each and every of his words, never once suspecting she might become part of this curse ...
• Travelling through the country by herself a young lady (Jasmin Selberg) happens upon a castle displaying the most remarkable collection of portraits of the ladies of the castle, and before you know it, the Count (Mart Sander) has persuaded her to sit for a portrait as well - only, this sitting is not what she had expected ...
• During a hunt, a young hunter (Mart Sander) is thrown off his horse and cut off his hunting party, when he finds a house to spend the night. And while the house seems to be uninhabited, he still finds hot food and tea and everything, as if prepared especially for him.  And only too late does he realize this is too good to be true ...
• They can't prove that she (Silvia Ives) has killed her millionaire husband (Rasmus Klaos), simply because she has a watertight alibi - and a magic mirror of course ...
• The universe provides for an underachieving worker (Toomas Kolk) in a rather unexpected way ...
• In World War II, an RAF soldier (Ian Bjorn) finds himself in a bombed out city with a German soldier (Rauno Polman), and the two of them get along surprisingly well - but can't shake the feeling they've actually killed one another and are now in afterlife ...
• Ian Henchop (Ando Temmo) is to die in a second - but death (Mart Sander) is a little late for the appointment and now has to improvise ...

One thing up front, this movie is a Guiness Book of World Records record holder for the most characters played by the same actor (writer/director/producer/scorer Mart Sander) in one and the same movie - a staggering 48 - but reducing the movie just to this ultimately pointless world record would do it little justice as it's in all a very entertaining anthology with its segments following the way of in the best meaning of the word old-fashioned short stories that include proper build-up, entertaining twists and a surprise ending. And the directorial effort at the same time feels slightly old-fashioned and timeless as if to mirror the writing, while the imagery for the most part is nothing short of beautiful without glossing over the narrative. So in all, just a very good, very intelligently written and very entertaining piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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