Blizzard of Souls (Dvēseļu putenis), dir. Dzintars Dreibergs, 120’, Latvia, 2019
The 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 – 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.
National Premiere November 8, 2019
Scriptwriter Boris Frumin
Cinematographer Valdis Celmiņš
Production Designer Juris Žukovskis
Sound Andris Barons
Original Music Lolita Ritmanis
Main Cast Oto Brantevics, Raimonds Celms, Mārtiņš Vilsons, Jēkabs Reinis, Gatis Gāga, Renārs Zeltiņš, Vilis Daudziņš, Grēta Trušiņa, Ieva Florence, Rēzija Kalniņa
Producers Dzintars Dreibergs, Inga Praņevska
Production Company
Kultfilma
Merķeļa street 13, Rīga LV-1050, Latvia
Phone: +371 29144477
www.kultfilma.lv
Supported by
National Film Centre of Latvia