The characters are the kind you expect to find in any movie about kids at a performing arts camp - there is the kind-hearted protagonist Toomas who has the voice of an angel and who falls for the pretty blonde girl called Elle, there is the quirky "alternative kid" who's always listening to "cool" music on his cassette player (yes, the Ghostbusters song was considered cool in 1980s Estonia), the funny fat kid named Tõnis (played by an up-and-coming Tarvo Krall), the grumpy camp counselor who's always in a huff about the kids' pranks (played by Feliks Kark, brother of a notable Estonian actor Tõnu Kark), and so on.
The real driving force behind this film is, of course, the music - the child performers make up for what they lack in acting ability with their musical talents and perform Estonian classics such as composer Ülo Vinter's "Laul põhjamaast". After all, the film stars former child singing sensation Toomas Uibo.
It should be pointed out that this film is probably much more enjoyable for people who are familiar with Estonian pop culture, since several of the lines and jokes in the movie are references to other Estonian or Soviet films. In fact, the entire film can be seen as a kind of a tribute to the 1969 Estonian classic "Kevade" (based on Oskar Luts' book of the same name), since the children spend almost the entire film preparing for the end-of-camp performance, which is a musical adaptation of "Kevade". The innocent "love triangle" between Elle, Toomas and Toomas' rival Teet echoes a similar relationship between Teele, Arno and Toots in "Kevade". Also, the title of this film translates roughly as "spring(time) at heart" and "Kevade" means "spring(time)".
All in all, the music is magical and the kids are adorable, but this feels more like an hour long concert than a film, because there is very little story behind the tunes.
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