THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR
synopsis
The film is like a stylization of silent cinema, connecting political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. A mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of a world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s saloon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.
international title: | The Year Before the War |
original title: | Gads pirms kara |
country: | Latvia |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Davis Simanis |
film run: | 116' |
screenplay: | Tabita Rudzate, Uldis Tīrons, Davis Simanis |
cast: | Petr Buchta, Lauris Dzelzītis, Ģirts Ķesteris, Gints Grāvelis, Dace Everss |
cinematography by: | Andrejs Rudzats |
film editing: | Anna Johnson Ryndová |
art director: | Kristine Jurjane |
music: | Faustas Latenas |
producer: | Roberts Vinovskis |
production: | Studio Locomotive |
backing: | National Film Centre of Latvia (LV) |