In Seda, a remote peat miners' town in Latvia, time seems to be frozen in the Soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multi-ethnic workforce from different parts of the former USSR, it still preserves intact the inflated style of a Stalinist "shock work" construction project. Culturally Seda's people feel like a community apart. Their lingua franca is Russian, and their social life is a mixture of Soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions. They don't want the European Union, they want to live in their own state - the Marshland.
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Kaspars Goba Director · Gunta Ikere Editor Raimonds Špakovskis Editor
First release September 25, 2004 · Produced in Latvia · Languages Latvian, Russian
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Filmtank
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VFS Films
Production
Latvia
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Original title
Seda. Purva ļaudis
Original language
Latvian
Spoken on screen
Latvian · Russian
Release dates
Latvia · September 25, 2004
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