Following the Swan Flock of Clouds (1957)
The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.
Director: Pāvels Armands
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Valdemārs Zandbergs as Mārtiņš |
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Vija Artmane as Dace |
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Jānis Kubilis as Alberts |
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Karps Klētnieks as ārsts |
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Astrīda Gulbe as |
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Juris Lejaskalns as |
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Zigrīda Stungure as |
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Lidija Freimane as |
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Austra Baldone as |
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Jānis Osis as |
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Arturs Dimiters as |
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Pēteris Cepurnieks as |
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Žanis Priekulis as |
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Milda Klētniece as |
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Hermanis Vazdiks as |
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Martinsh Verdinsh as |
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Oļģerts Krastiņš as |
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Karlis Sebris as |
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Harijs Liepiņš as |
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Žanis Kopštāls as |
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Edgars Girgensons as |
| Directing | Pāvels Armands | Director |
| Writing | Jūlijs Vanags | Writer |
| Writing | Semyon Nagorny | Writer |
| Sound | Marģeris Zariņš | Music |
| Art | Herberts Līkums | Art Direction |
| Camera | Vadims Mass | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Vija Frijāre | Editor |
| Directing | Rolands Kalnins | Co-Director |