The Year Before the War

2021· 95 min★ 5.0· Thriller

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.

Cast: Petr Buchta, Inga Apine, Ģirts Ķesteris

Director: Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.