The Year Before the War

The Year Before the War (2021)

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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.

Date of release
2021-11-17
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Dāvis Sīmanis Jr.

Casting

Interesting facts

The Year Before the War is a 2021 surrealist historical thriller film co-written and directed by Dāvis Sīmanis. It is about the journey across Europe of Peter Piaktow, a foreign Latvian anarchist. It is a co-production between Latvia, the Czech Republic and Lithuania.

Production

Principal photography began in January 2019 and wrapped in late January 2020. Filming took place on location in Pļaviņas, Cinevilla, Riga, Sloka, Talsi and Praga.

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