The Year Before the War (2021)
Original title: Gads pirms kara
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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Petr Buchta
Inga Apine
Ģirts Ķesteris
Lauris Dzelzītis
Gints Grāvelis
Juris Strenga
Jānis Putniņš
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What is The Year Before the War about?
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.
How long is The Year Before the War?
The Year Before the War has a runtime of 95 minutes.
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