Oskar Luts (1887–1953) seems to per­form the same func­tion in Eston­ian lit­er­a­ture that W.O. Mitchell does for Cana­da. His sequence of nov­els describ­ing the lives of school chil­dren in the 1890’s, and car­ry­ing their sto­ries for­ward into mid­dle age, are loved in his home­land. These were writ­ten short­ly before World War One. All three of the nov­els were filmed: Kevade [Spring] (1969); Suvi [Sum­mer] (1976); Sügis [Fall] (1991). All were direct­ed by Arvo Kru­use­ment, with some of the same actors appear­ing in the lot, notably Aare Laanemets as the ras­cal­ly Joosep Toots. I have all three, but I’ve only found Eng­lish sub­ti­tles for Kevade. Read more »