In 1986 Juris Podnieks released Vai Viegli Būt Jaunam, a documentary probing lives of young people in Soviet Latvia, and already at that time he intended to to a follow-up ten years later. Unfortunately, in 1992 Podnieks died in a diving accident...so Antra Cilinska took over his project, looked for the young people from original documentary and made new one which tries to tak...
Annia (28) lives in Riga and always is in a process and finding her own way, expressing herself in multiple roles. She works as a show manager at The New Riga Theatre, but later she needs to find out how to be unemployed. She teaches tap dance in her own studio, and a great part of her life is to be Dr. Clown in Children’s clinical hospital
The camera stands in a house, the lens pointing through the window, outdoors, where the occupants of the home are standing. They respond patiently to the camera operator’s directions: a small step to the left, a little bit forward, no, back just a bit, yes, that’s perfect. Dozens of people pose in this way for a full minute. There’s a man who lives alone, a large family, an old...
Vija Artmane in a zenith of her fame and a woman with worked hands. An actress without makeup and without acting.
One of the first films, made during the Soviet times, which talks honestly about the complicated history of the Latvian people. During World War I, inspired by the idea of a free and independent Latvia, about 60, 000 men volunteered for the battalions of riflemen. At the time when the film was made – the beginning of the 80-ties – about 300 were still alive, aged from 80 to 100...
"Крестный путь - послесловие" - продолжение первого фильма. 13-20 января 1991-го года в Вильнюсе и Риге.
Трагические события января 1991 года развернулись в латвийской столице уже после принятия Сеймом Декларации о восстановлении государственной независимости Латвийской республики (ЛР). В стране на какое-то время воцарилось двоевластие: действовали все структуры СССР, а парламе...
Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. This story will reveal the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.
