The Mover

The Mover (2018)

Tēvs nakts

To save a life means saving the world

Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.

Date of release
2018-10-18
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
History, Drama
Director
Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Mover is a 2018 Latvian historial war drama film directed by Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. The film is based on the Latvian novel A Boy and a Dog written by Inese Zandere and illustrated by Reinis Pētersons. It was selected as the Latvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. In 2019 The Mover was awarded as the best foreign film at Haifa International Film Festival.

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