Escaping Riga

Escaping Riga (2014)

Documentary

The film is based on true events, it tells the stories of two outstanding personalities of the 20th century – Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin, who were both born and spent their childhood in Riga but soon had to leave the city. The film follows the lives of the two characters during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, telling how one of them becomes “the greatest film director of his generation” in the totalitarian Soviet Union, and the other “the greatest thinker of his generation” in liberal Great Britain.

Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Casts

	Gustavs Briedis as young Berlin
	Gints Grūbe as Sir Isiah Berlin
	Mihails Karasikovs as Sergei Eisenstein
	Viktors Puglejevs as young Eisenstein
	Mārtiņš Počs as young Eisenstein #2
	Lauma Balode as Eisenstein's dream woman
	Anna Heinrihsone as
	Robert Cottrel as
	Artūrs Kondrāts as
	Māris Pūris as
	Leo Hiršsons as
	Agris Māsēns as
	Anna Šteina as

Crew