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Broken windows, striptease bars and survival. Coming soon a domestic film about the harsh everyday life of a taxi driver – “Change” – Cinema – Free time

The premiere will take place at the Splendid Palace cinema, and at the same time as the premiere in Latvia, the film will be available in the largest regional cinemas, as well as in smaller Latvian cinema screenings.

The film “Change” is a criminal drama that tells about the events of one night in the life of a new taxi driver Marek (Edgars Ozolins). To support his son, Marek works as a taxi driver at night. The money Marek owes the boss for the crashed car is stolen from his car.

He has to make up for what he has lost as soon as possible, so in the hope of finding profitable customers, he goes to the airport and goes around Riga hotels.

Marek ignores the unwritten rules of the taxi world, which upset the delicate balance between competing taxi companies. As morning approaches, stolen money is nowhere near his biggest problem.

Photo: Behind the scenes of the film “Change”

The film tells about the generation of the main character, who was born shortly before Latvia’s independence, experienced the restoration of independence and its growth during the changes of the 1990s, when everyone could and tried to become something else. The idea of ​​the film encompasses a broader description of the generation, showing how generations grown up at different times have chosen to live in a particular social environment in the new living conditions, making them think about personal choices in crisis situations and the crisis of moral values ​​in society.

The director of the film is Reinis Kalviņš, for whom this will be his debut film. During his studies, Reinis made short films “He took a bottle but left a girl”, “Blackout” and “Coffee and cigarettes”. Reinis Kalvins received his film education at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn (2014) and supplemented his knowledge in master’s studies at the University of Sarajevo “Bela Tarr Film Factory” (2016). He worked as a producer of the film “1906”, was the executive producer of the Finnish feature film “The Hatching” shot in Latvia (2019).

With the film “Change”, Reinis will be announced as one of the representatives of the new author’s cinema in Latvian “new wave” cinema, offering the Latvian viewer a fresh cinematic language and stylistic solution and thus promoting the diversity of Latvian film genres.

Footage from the movie “Change” (Reinis Kalvins)

PHOTO: publicity

“The idea for the film came to me while I was still living in Sarajevo, where I sometimes got to travel in illegal taxis.

In parallel Headlines appeared in the Latvian media about settling mutual bills between taxi drivers Riga and the distribution of territories for receiving passengers at the airport.

At first, it sounded almost unbelievable that such a bubble still exists in Riga at the beginning of the 21st century, which has not been affected by change and where the principles of the 1990s actually prevail. It seemed interesting to go on an atmospheric one-night ride through the city from this point of view. In its message, the film is a tribute to the part of the city that taxi drivers face, but which is not particularly open to the outside, “the film ‘s director Reinis Kalviņš.

“It is a great pleasure that with Reinis Kalviņš’s debut feature film” Change “we can invite Latvian viewers to cinema again after a long silence, and a double joy that we can do it with the new director’s first film, which is a story about the allegedly invisible criminal side of modern Riga. .

The plot of the film is borrowed from real Latvian taxi drivers’ stories and documentary events. Only a few years ago, 80% of the taxi business was in the gray area, and real taxi drivers’ stories about their daily lives were used to create the film ‘s script, “says the film’ s producer Gints Grūbe.

Video: Movie commercial

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