The Year Before the War
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.
Cast: Petr Buchta, Inga Apine, Ģirts Ķesteris
The Year Before the War
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.
- Producers
- Roberts Vinovskis
- Studio
- Studio Uljana Kim, Produkce Radim Procházka, Locomotive Productions
Maturity rating
Not yet rated.
