The Year Before the War

Thriller · 2021

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.

Starring

Petr Buchta, Anna Ryndová, Dāvis Sīmanis Jr., Inga Apine, Dāvis Sīmanis Jr., Ģirts Ķesteris, Roberts Vinovskis, Lauris Dzelzītis, Gints Grāvelis, Tabita Rudzāte

Director

Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.