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Priit Pärn (born August 26, 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals.
Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for Kilplased (1974). After a brief apprenticeship in Joonisfilm, he directed his first film Is the Earth Round? in 1977.
Pärn's most important films are considered to be Triangle (1982), Breakfast on the Grass (1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (co-directed by Janno Põldma, 1995) and Night of the Carrots (1998).
Pärn's style is characterized by black humour, playful surrealism and a unique graphic style. His somewhat crude style marked the departure from both Rein Raamat's overtly serious and moralizing films as well as the Disneyesque style propagated by the directors of Soyuzmultfilm. In his footsteps (and occasionally copying his style to a large degree) have followed numerous new generation Estonian film makers, most notably Ülo Pikkov and Priit Tender.
Influences of Pärn's graphical style can also be seen in such commercial animated series as Rugrats and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! directed by Igor Kovalyov.
In 2002 Pärn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Animated Film Association, and he received Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2008.
Divers in the Rain (2010), co-directed with his wife Olga Pärn, became the most successful Estonian animated film of all time with its 18th award at KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine.
Pärn had taught animation at the Arts Academy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland since 1994 and now he is teaching at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Most Popular Priit Pärn Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
01 September 2007
Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon.
01 June 1989
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
01 January 1977
Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute.
16 June 2018
Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine.
13 June 2003
When the Rugrats find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they meet the Thornberrys, a family who agrees to help them escape.
01 January 1978
A tiny green bear (the Trickster) tries his best to impress a group of animals with his annoying tricks.
12 September 1974
The story of a bunch of peasants who have a hard time using logic to build their community.
01 January 1975
When a young man literally crosses the line, he pays the price and is transformed into the little piggy wiggy he truly is.
01 January 1974
A satirical puppet film about the devastation alcohol causes to the human body.
01 January 1983
A fun and educational story about the nature of goodness. It's not just a natural and self-evident part of our lives, but a force that helps overcome many obstacles that come our way in life.
20 January 1992
A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.
31 December 2020
An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
01 August 1987
Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
01 December 1988
A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.
12 September 1986
There is only one animal living in the zoo - the giraffe. No one but the little girl goes to see her.
06 May 1995
1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography.
20 May 1985
An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.
23 April 2015
Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.
23 March 1970
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on.
18 November 2009
Ex opera singer works as a Crocodile in a shopping center. Until a femme fatale arrives.
02 November 1977
Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.
26 November 2016
A mystical beauty surgery clinic is built next to a sports club which threatens to ruin the club's owner.
10 February 2010
A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.
27 November 2013
One of the inhabitants of the flat earth gains possession of glasses that enable one to see in three dimensions.
01 January 2013
Documentary about the work of the Estonian cartoonist and animation director Priit Pärn
20 April 2006
A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation homogeneous for a long time, but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
01 January 2019
The nameless man, left alone in a sterile office environment, rethinks his existence. He hears the Alentejo song, a traditional Portuguese chant that shows him a different world from the meaningless everyday existence of work and society that he knows.
01 January 2018
The mysterious mechanism of a music box keeps playing different versions of the same melody. In isolation and an atmosphere of fear you might think that other melodies do not exist because it helps to bear the constant pain.
23 November 2006
In a marathon running, a criminal hides among the runners, after blowing up a statue in the central square.
02 March 1982
Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.
10 October 1983
Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl.
29 May 2003
Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it.
09 December 2005
This inventive documentary about famed Estonian animator Priit Parn is an involving look at his socig
01 January 2017
The man spent most of his life in prison. His body is covered with tattoos that describe his criminal past and symbolize his high authority.
01 January 2007
Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit Pärn.
04 December 1998
Diego the bicyclist waits to check into the PGI hotel, where each room's inhabitant seems more bizarre than the last, and the rabbits on the top floor have discovered the secret of voodoo, using electronics and carrots.
25 March 2005
Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia.
09 June 2014
Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert.
01 January 2009
He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely.
01 January 1989
Balancing on the borders of the real and the unreal the film strives to express the monotony of this world, its illusory character, and emphasize the lack of spirituality in everyday routine.
31 May 2018
The people are awaiting someone special. Someone special is born: a grown man in a suit.
01 January 1981
A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.
20 November 2020
A cold-hearted boy walks through a freezing city, trying to connect with its inhabitants, but receives only cold rejection.
01 January 2011
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
01 January 2008
A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall.
20 November 2011
The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free.
21 August 2024
Despite a comprehensive security camera system and efficient airport security checks, a group of activists succeed in their diabolical plan.
10 October 1977
A boy sets out to prove the world is round by walking in one direction and ending up where he started.
21 November 2017
Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.
01 January 2007
A portrait of Estonian animator Priit Parn.
30 January 2023
A richly animated documentary about the extremely popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror.
