7 Films & TV Shows Set In Latvia During The 20th Century
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Blizzard of Souls
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 1910sThe love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined โ no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
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The Chronicles of Melanie
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sThe 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
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The Priest
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sFather Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.
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Defenders of Riga
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia The 1910sThe film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
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Coup de Grรขce
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910sA countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
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Menschen ohne Vaterland
๐ฑ๐ป Latvia ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1910s