Maria's Silence (Marijas Klusums), dir. Dāvis Sīmanis, 85', Latvia/Lithuania, 2024
A historical drama based on the true life of German silent-movie star and theatre actress Maria Leiko. Late in her fading career, she is forced to flee Nazi Germany but is tricked into travelling to Stalin’s Russia in search of her daughter, only to discover that she has died while giving birth. With a motherless grandchild on her hands and being offered a new career in Soviet theatre, Leiko decides to stay in Russia. The KGB soon catches her in the regime’s spider web, and she begins to understand the true nature of Stalin’s repressions, destined to play her life’s most tragic role – an innocent victim destroyed, along with her fellow actors and hundreds of thousands of other Soviet citizens.
World Premiere Berlinale Forum, February 2024
Scriptwriters Dāvis Sīmanis, Tabita Rudzāte
Cinematographer Andrejs Rudzāts
Production Designer Kristīne Jurjāne
Main Cast Olga Šepicka, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Vilis Daudziņš, Ģirts Ķesteris, Inese Kučinska
Producer Gints Grūbe
Supported by
National Film Centre of Latvia
Production Company
Mistrus Media
Gints Grūbe
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