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Escaping Riga

6 average rating
6
Latvian / 70 MIN. / 2014

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Gustavs BriedisGints GrūbeMihails KarasikovsViktors PuglejevsMārtiņš PočsLauma BalodeAnna HeinrihsoneRobert CottrelArtūrs KondrātsMāris PūrisLeo HiršsonsAgris MāsēnsAnna Šteina

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