Nord Express (2024)
A documentary detective film about the construction of a 870 kilometres long highspeed railway line that started with a dream to connect the Baltic States to rest of the Europe when in 1991 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence from Soviet Union. Filmmaker Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ and goes on the road to find out why after 30 years and with only few years before the intended launch of the Rail Baltica railway line, the construction of this EU-funded project is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and may never be finished at all. Kārlis follows the trail of Rail Baltica project, trying to get the answers - what has happened and what is happening? Traveling through all the involved countries, he meets officials, military personnel, investigative journalists, people whose land will be expropriated, employees implementing the project and potentially benefiting entrepreneurs, who open up to him with their versions of the story.
Director: Kārlis Lesiņš
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Kārlis Lesiņš as Self |
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Inese Braže as Self |
| Directing | Kārlis Lesiņš | Director |
| Camera | Ivo Skanstiņš | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Toms Krauklis | Editor |
| Sound | Siim Škepast | Sound Director |
| Production | Elīna Gediņa-Ducena | Producer |
| Production | Gints Grūbe | Producer |
| Production | Pille Rünk | Co-Producer |
| Production | Małgorzata Staroń | Co-Producer |
| Production | Reinhardt Beetz | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Kārlis Lesiņš | Writer |
| Writing | Inese Braže | Writer |
