The Great Magician/ Den Store Trollkarlen/
Le Grand Magicien/ Vägev Völur
Production: Olivier Guerpillon,
dfm fiktion and co-produced with Average Monkey / Estonia and La Voie
Lactée / France
Short film written by EG, based on the short novel Le Grand Magicien
by René Daumal
written in the 1930s.
With the support of SFI – Swedish Film Institute, Reaktor Syd.
Sales: Jan Naszewski/ New Europe Film Sales
Shot in Tallinn, Estonia, April 06. D.o.p: Alex Lindén, set designer: Jérôme
Signori, costume: Mare Raidma
Length : 14 min Format : 16mm Cast: Egon Nuter, Maria Klenskaja. Music: Leo
Helldén and Romain Violleau
Festivals
Gothenburg; Brooklyn Intl Film
Festival; Mecal, Barcelona, Hamptons Intl Film Festival, US;
Bunter Hund Intl
Film Festical Munich, Germany; Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival, Toronto Canada;
Portland International Film Festival, Oregon US; Paris Tout Cort; RioFan - Rio de Janeiro Fantastic Film Festival; Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival; Jonkoping Filmfestival; www.portablefilmfestival.com; Reykjavik Shorts & Docs, Swedish and Norwegian film festival in Paris - www.cinenordica.com.
Awards
Best Short Film, Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival, Toronto Canada.