Escaping Riga
6.8
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.
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Cast
27 people
Gustavs Briedis
young Berlin
Gints Grūbe
Sir Isiah Berlin
Davis Simanis Jr.
Inese Boka
Mihails Karasikovs
Sergei Eisenstein
Known for
The Man Who Saved the World
Liga Gaisa
Viktors Puglejevs
young Eisenstein
Gints Grube
Sir Isiah Berlin
Mārtiņš Počs
young Eisenstein #2
Also in
The Berlin File
Dream Team 1935
Madara Kalnina
Lauma Balode
Eisenstein's dream woman
Also in
Baltic Tribes
A Certain Kind of Silence
Valdis Celmiņš
Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. Director · Uldis Tīrons Writer Valdis Celmiņš Cinematographer
United States release July 29, 2015 · Produced in Latvia · Languages Latvian, Russian
Production
Mistrus Media
Production
Latvia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Latvian · Russian
Release dates
Latvia · April 1, 2014
Premiere · Splendid Palace
Latvia · April 11, 2014
Theatrical
United States · July 29, 2015
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Canada
February 17, 2016 · Baltic-Nordic Film Festival
Denmark
November 1, 2014
Lithuania
March 20, 2015 · International Film Festival Vilnius
Netherlands
November 19, 2014 · International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Poland
May 8, 2015 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
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