100 stories from the hiking route

2017 – the film “Tõde ja õigus” (“Truth and Justice”) starts filming in Vastse-Roosa

Information

Topic

Literature and culture

Coordinates

Long-Lat WGS 84

Latitude: 57.573674

Longitude: 26.694229

L-EST 97

x: 6384488.2
y:

Location

Ähijärve-Aegviidu Hiking route

Several films are being made in honour of the centenary of the Republic of Estonia, but the greatest one that involves the most responsibility is the screen adaptation of the first part of “Tõde ja õigus” directed by Tanel Toom.
Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born in 1878 at the Põhja-Tammsaare farm in Vetepera Village. A museum was opened in Tammsaare’s childhood home in 1978.
However, the “true Vargamäe” was not suitable for filming, as it now has many modern buildings and gravel roads and the forest is too close. The search for Andres and Krõõt’s home at Vargamäe lasted almost six months until they found it in Vastse-Roosa Village near the Latvian border. However, even this location has to be digitally altered later on to create the perfectly suitable landscape. Seven new buildings that look like old ones were built for the film adaptation of “Tõde ja õigus”. The facades of the houses were built out of old logs collected from the Estonian people in order to make the farm buildings look befitting to the 19th century. The fact that the storyline of the book takes place over 24 years also makes the filming harder. The dwelling of Vargamäe will be extended by four metres during filming and as the story develops, and the dirt floor will be replaced by a wooden one. The wooden requisites were made in Vana-Antsla in Võru County.

Source:
Vargamäe Andres’ farm is being built during filming in Mõniste. Võrumaa Teataja. 21 June 2016