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The Year Before the War

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.

Top Cast

  • Petr Buchta

    Petr Buchta

  • Inga Apine

    Inga Apine

  • Ģirts Ķesteris

    Ģirts Ķesteris

  • Lauris Dzelzītis

    Lauris Dzelzītis

  • Gints Grāvelis

    Gints Grāvelis

  • Juris Strenga

    Juris Strenga

  • Jānis Putniņš

    Jānis Putniņš

  • Eduards Johansons

    Eduards Johansons

Overview

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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