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Tag Archives: Latvia
Two Prosecutors (2025) Zwei Staatsanwälte
In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals Read More »
Honey Baby (2004) Mika Kaurismäki, Henry Thomas
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Read More »
Soviet Bus Stops (2022) Kristoffer Hegnsvad, Christopher Herwig, Victor Sheptunov Illarionovich, Konstantinas Jakovlevas-Mateckis
Architecture, like anything else during the Soviet period, was under strict centralized supervision. Read More »
The Shoe / Kurpe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
Kolka Cool (2011) Juris Poskus, Aigars Apinis, Agnese Civle, Gatis Gaga
A film that depicts the mentality of the inhabitants of a small village on the Baltic coast. Read More »
My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) Signe Baumane, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine
From an early age, songs and fairy tales convince Zelma that Love would solve Read More »
The Sign Painter (2020) Viesturs Kairiss, Davis Suharevskis, Brigita Cmuntová, Agnese Budovska
The Sign Painter is a Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears Read More »
A Certain Kind of Silence (2019) Michal Hogenauer, Eliska Krenková, Jacob Jutte, Monic Hendrickx
A young au pair meets a radical family community while working abroad Read More »
The Mystery of Old Parish House AKA Vecas pagastmajas misterija (2000) Janis Streics, Gundars Abolins, Aurelija Anuzhite, Andris Berzins
Based on a true story. An old KGB agent is forced to live in an old parish house, where he tortured and killed Latvians in 1941. Read More »