The Year Before the War
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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.
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Cast
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Petr Buchta
Known for
McMafia
Inga Apine
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Paradise 89
The Gardener
Ģirts Ķesteris
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The Good Neighbor
Swingers
Lauris Dzelzītis
Known for
The Pagan King
Gints Grāvelis
Also in
Soviet Jeans
The Game of Shadows
Juris Strenga
Known for
Catherine the Great
The Good Neighbor
Jānis Putniņš
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Hide-and-seek
Lotus
Eduards Johansons
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Ecstasis
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Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. Director · Tabita Rudzāte Writer Uldis Tīrons Writer
First release February 5, 2021 · Produced in Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia · Languages French, German, Latvian, Russian
Production
Studio Uljana Kim
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Produkce Radim Procházka
Production
Locomotive Productions
Production
Latvia · Lithuania · Czechia
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Languages
Original title
Gads pirms kara
Original language
Latvian
Spoken on screen
French · German · Latvian · Russian
Release dates
Netherlands · February 5, 2021
Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
Lithuania · November 17, 2021
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Estonia
November 26, 2021 · Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Germany
November 5, 2021 · Premiere · Film Festival Cottbus
Latvia
October 21, 2021 · Premiere · Riga International Film Festival
Poland
November 14, 2021 · Premiere · Camerimage International Film Festival
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