After spending her entire life in the family farmhouse “Cīrulīši,” Zelma is faced with the painful prospect of leaving her home and moving in with one of her children. As the family gathers at the house, long-standing personal and everyday problems come to the surface: her son Elmārs, a newspaper journalist from Riga, and his wife Gundega, a successful researcher; her son Raimonds, the chairman of a neighboring collective farm; and her daughter, a doctor who lives nearby. Deeply concerned for her children and reluctant to leave the home that has shaped her life, Zelma struggles to come to terms with the changes ahead.
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Velta Līne
Zelma
Also in
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Aija
Juris Lejaskalns
Elmārs
Also in
Double Trap
Long Road in the Dunes
Vija Artmane
Gundega
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Theatre
Andromeda Nebula
Uldis Dumpis
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Secret Fairway
Long Road in the Dunes
Lilita Ozoliņa
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Long Road in the Dunes
Long Road in the Dunes
Anda Zaice
Known for
Trial on the Road
Astrīda Kairiša
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Lake Sonata
Identification
Dīns Ritenbergs
Erlends Ritenbergs
Oļģerts Dunkers Director · Harijs Gulbis Author Gvido Skulte Cinematographer
First release January 3, 1980 · Produced in Russia
Production
Rīgas kinostudija
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Russia
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Original language
Latvian
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Latvian
Release dates
Latvia · January 3, 1980
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No release date listed for United States.
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