A movie that never existed

When these images ran across my feed, I thought they might be stills from an 80s Fassbinder movie. And they have a nicely Ballardian sense of anomie, I like the empty tables in the restaurant. Loneliness with a Nagel gloss.

Actually, they’re part of a brochure for an Estonian hotel, mid to late 80s, pre-collapse of the USSR. Because of its proximity to Finland and the rest of the Baltic money, Estonia had a few more options, late Soviet empire times.

More images can be found here, on the C86 Tumblr.

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