Overview of articles
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Can’t Help Myself
Unglamorous beach work in Riga is poignantly juxtaposed with the extravagant promises of self-help gurus.
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In My Pocket
A cornucopia of stories-in-songs for children, based on poems by famous (Soviet) Latvian literato Ojārs Vācietis.
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The Golden Sieve
Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation!
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Bear of Happiness
When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.
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The Year Before the War
Europe in 1913, seen through the prisms of ideological extremism, dangerous sex, existential doubt and psychoanalysis.
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Vogelfrei
A fresh breeze from Latvia. A generation film made up of four novellas, made by four novice directors. The different stages of life of a man pass b
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Maritime Climates
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitab
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Apple in the River
When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the lovelies
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Battles
Can a film be clinical and informative and yet also dreamy and mysterious? Of course, and a lot more besides. That much is apparent from the beauti
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