Ainult hulludele ehk halastajaõde (also known as Halastajaõde; ) is a 1990 Estonian drama film directed by Arvo Iho.
Awards: 1991: Monstra Internationale del Film d'Auttore (San Remo, Italy), best actress award: Margarita Terekhova 1992: Rouen Nordic Film Festival (France), 1992, best actress award: Margarita Terekhova
Plot A nurse at a psychiatric hospital, taking pity on an unfortunate young man who was admitted there after attempting suicide due to impotence, cures him. However, her mercy entails harsh consequences.
The film is based on a true story, but it happened not in Estonia, but in Russia. The screenwriter Marina Sheptunova had such a friend. The woman who served as the prototype for the main character was also killed. Director Arvo Iho, having transferred the action to Estonian soil, made all the characters Estonians, but left the main character Rita Russian. Cast Margarita Terekhova as Rita Hendrik Toompere Sr. as Olav Hendrik Toompere Jr. as Johan Mihkel Smeljanski as Viktor Lembit Ulfsak as Andres Vija Artmane as Siina Maria Avdjuško as Eva Jaan Tätte as Toomas Katrin Kohv as Leida Ines Aru as Ilse Aire Koop as Marta Critical response Iho asks the question: Can love cure everything and if so, do you have to be insane to believe in it? The setting of the movie is a small, banal town where the leading character, a nurse in the town hospital, tries to find an answer to the picture's main problem — charity.Variety International Film Guide (1994)
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