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Old fire trucks travel around the world. The documentary “Capture of Borders” has been made / Article / LSM.lv

Traveler Harry Sils, continuing what his friend Valdis Brants started, has traveled more than 100,000 kilometers in fire truck expeditions, on five continents and in 51 countries around the world. In 2009, one of the cars crashed on the Sino-Vietnamese border – the new documentary adventure film Capture of the Borders, which will be shown in cinemas from August 7, tells about how it was brought back home eight years later.

“We don’t leave our own, and the expedition is only completed when everyone has returned home,” said Harry Sils, the expedition’s organizer and film producer.

The film “Capture of Borders” is a story about two fire trucks that traveled a large part of the world, the author and producer of the film Sandijs Semjonovs told in the LTV program “Rīta Panorāma”. However, in 2009 one of the cars was stopped on the border between China and Vietnam – the car was not allowed in Vietnam, but it was also not allowed to return to China, so the car had to be left, explained the expedition participant Andris Skrūskops.

The machine has been standing and rusting the border in captivity for seven years. “Everyone was very sorry, but it took a lot of money to return him. Then Juris Jansons appeared to us, who offered us money for our expedition so that we could go to see it. Harry Silts organized the whole trip and looked around, started the car and realized that maybe there was any hope of getting him back, ”said Scraper.

Attentive passers-by could see the same fire truck, now in an improved appearance, parked at the cinema “Kino Citadele” in Riga on August 5 – the day of the film’s premiere, noted Skrūskops.

The authors of the film explain in the job application: “One of the biggest and most unpredictable adventures of a lifetime. Travel around half of the world with old fire trucks. Our firefighters were blocked on the Sino-Vietnamese border at one of the most difficult border crossings in the world, and the expedition returns to Latvia and cannot leave someone who has already become a family member because we do not leave ours.

After almost eight years, a rescue expedition leaves Latvia to return the firefighter home. This is called a firefighter’s rescue operation. “

Andris Skrūskops told the Latvian Radio program “Kultūras Rondo” that it all started with the purchase of cheap cars in good condition. They were designed for off-road use. Then the idea arose to turn them into micro / macro buses, make beds inside and start working. It started in 2002. There have been many adventure trips.

Traveler Harry Sils is currently in self-contained home. Remembering the trips with the old fire trucks, he admitted: “Everyone had some excesses and interesting things.”

He mentions that there have been four major expeditions, the first of which was to South America. “First we had to get the cars there, no one believed we would get and drive. When the cars were on board, there were a lot of people who wanted to drive. Then we drove from Mexico to Argentina. A hundred days passed,” said Harry Silts.

The second expedition was to Africa.

“It was the most exotic, because we drove in places in the Congo where we hadn’t seen a car for seven years, a white man for 30 years,” said Harry Silts. “The third was in Riga – Melbourne. It was a completely unrealistic goal set for us. It was not achieved because the cars would not have been allowed into Australia. This intermittent trip took two years.”

During the last expedition, a car that remained on the Vietnamese border was cooled at home.

The film was made by editing directors Laura Rožkalne-Ozola and Toms Krauklis, screenwriter Sandijs Semjonovs, cameraman Jānis Indriks, music author Jānis Strapcāns (“Three Penguins”), producers Sandijs Semjonovs and Harijs Sils. Expedition organizers: Valdis Brants and Harijs Sils.

The film was made in the studios “Skuba Films”, “von Films” and “VFS Films”, the film is distributed by the film project “Spektrs”. The documentary story premiered on August 5, and from August 7 it will be shown in cinemas throughout Latvia.

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