The Year Before the War

Plot

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

Lauris Dzelzītis

Gints Grāvelis

Juris Strenga

Jānis Putniņš

Eduards Johansons