An Empty Beach

The short story An Empty Beach (published in 1972) is one of the most outstanding accomplishments of the first creative period of an Estonian literature and theatre classic – it is a masterpiece of Estonian modernism.

Running Time:

1:30

A young intellectual has discovered his wife’s infidelity. It is a classical love triangle in which a man, his wife and the wife’s lover go on a trip together to a mysterious island, in the middle of sea and forest. Soon, the triangle turns into a rectangle.
The short story built on the veiled inner monologue of the protagonist filled with the existential doubts of an adolescent, his fatal and mystical main tone, all of this has interested Estonian theatre and film people before as well. The beginning of 2006 brought its film version; the second half will bring a theatrical interpretation in which last year’s graduates of the Higher Theatre School make their debuts in the Vanemuine.