Film · Drama, Family

Smile at Last (1985)

16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.

Director

Leida Laius

Writers

Silvia Rannamaa, Marina Sheptunova, Lauri Kärk

Country

Russia

Language

Estonian

Release date

November 28, 1985

Original title

Naerata ometi