The Year Before the War (2021)
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.
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
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Petr Buchta as |
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Inga Apine as |
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Ģirts Ķesteris as |
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Lauris Dzelzītis as |
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Gints Grāvelis as |
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Juris Strenga as |
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Jānis Putniņš as |
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Eduards Johansons as |
| Directing | Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. | Director |
| Camera | Andrejs Rudzāts | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Uldis Tīrons | Writer |
| Writing | Tabita Rudzāte | Writer |
| Editing | Anna Ryndová | Editor |
| Writing | Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. | Writer |
| Production | Roberts Vinovskis | Producer |
| Sound | Faustas Latėnas | Music |
| Art | Kristīne Jurjāne | Production Design |
| Sound | Saulius Urbanavičius | Sound Director |
| Sound | Jacek Wiśniewski | Foley Artist |
