Released

Gads pirms kara

The Year Before the War · 2021

95 min · Thriller · Latvian · Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia

Co-production

Credits

Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
Screenwriter: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.Tabita Rudzāte Uldis Tīrons
Producer: Roberts Vinovskis
Cinematographer: Andrejs Rudzāts
Production designer: Kristine Jurjane Kristīne Jurjāne
Editor: Anna Ryndová
Composer: Faustas Latėnas

Produced by

Produkce Radim Procházka
Czechia · Production
Studio Uljana Kim
Production
Locomotive Productions
Latvia · Production

Synopsis

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This 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 the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.

Timeline

5 February 2021Festival premiere
17 November 2021Opened in cinemas

Spoken languages: Latvian, German, Russian, French

Also known as Rok před válkou

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